To clarify while agreeing.
What was unique was the idea that every individual mattered. All other cultures believed that some people mattered and others just didn't. At all.
The Jews and their Christian offshoot invented the idea that every individual is important simply because he/she is a child of God. Probably the most revolutionary idea in history.
> The Jews and their Christian offshoot invented the idea that every individual is important simply because he/she is a child of God.
Well, except for them durn Caananites...
An excellent clarification -- you thought it through much more thoroughly than I had. Thanks.
See # 12