By contrast, he describes differentiation as a process whereby Israel came to reject its Canaanite roots, and create a separate identity.

相反，他认为保留差异的过程,是因为以色列人拒绝迦南根源，创建独立身份。

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A final model, then, is a model of gradual emergence, who had developed a separate identity and settled increasingly in the central highlands.

最后一个模型是逐渐起义的模型，他们逐渐建立了独立身份,逐渐在中央高地定居。

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At some point there was a desire to separate, and in that process of identity formation, a polemic began to develop that created Yahweh in a distinct way, differentiated from the Canaanite deities.

某些时候，有非常强烈的分离的愿望，在这个过程中，也就形成了他们自己的身份，塑造截然不同的耶和华这一理论便开始发展，要与迦南的众神有所差别。

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