Question

explain how religion helped shape the culture of the ancient israelites , as presented in the hebrew bible

Answer 1

Because it was the first (the WORD'S first) religion based on one God, who sent down set laws about wrongs and rights.  Which helped shape the religions of Christianity and Islam, as well as modern ideas about law and human rights.

I based this off of the chapter Judaism (in page 170, I assume. Assuming because page chapters online vary from the actual textbook.) on a website  http://www.slideshare.net/catherineduffy/judaism-43191213. You can find the 'answer' in the first paragraph. You just have to read and paraphrase it how you see it, I suppose.

Answer 2

Answer:

Basically, it helped in everything. Ancient Israelites are the hebrews, and their culture was defined by their religion. All their costumes, morality and ethic, was defined by their believes. They arrange as a society when they received the Ten Commandments, given by God to have order and moral laws, to guide their behaviour.

Another event, that shaped the culture and their organisation as society was the 70 elders that Moises named to help him to rule, this meant the first legislative system.