Origin of the specious

Even here, however, there are matters of scholarly disagreement of which Wright seems simply unaware. [...] where he begins to wax speculative, and to impose his non-zero-sum template on the storyarguing that the movement from polytheism to monolatry to monotheism, and from a more tribal to a more universal ethics, was impelled by the concrete history of political amalgamations and conquests- he purchases explanatory neatness at the cost of vast oversimplifications of the historical record.