Religion shaped the culture of the ancient Israelites as presented in the Hebrew Bible because the religion that helped do that was Judaism.
It is the theory of just noticeable differences of JND. In the branch of exploratory brain science concentrated on sense, sensation, and recognition, which is called psychophysics, a simply perceptible contrast or JND is the sum something must be changed all together for a distinction to be discernible, recognizable at any rate a fraction of the time