“Again and again in the Pentateuch, the psalms, the prophets, and the subsequent writings … the claim is made that the creator of the entire universe has chosen to live uniquely on a small ridge called Mount Zion, near the eastern edge of the …Judean hill-country. The sheer absurdity of this claim, from the standpoint of any other worldview (not least that of Enlightenment philosophy), is staggering.” –N T Wright

N. T. Wright, The New Testament and the People of God (Fortress Press, 1992), p. 247 (on the notion of Jewish monotheism).