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In creating monotheism the Jews denied immortality and reacted strongly against the magic, prophecy, funeral rites, and cult of death found in other eastern Mediterranean religions. This constituted a repudiation of omnipotence which in the unconscious was tantamount to killing the omnipotent father. In this way the Jews assumed their scapegoat role.