Erich Fromm's You Shall Be As Gods is a book that seeks to provide a radical interpretation of the Old Testament and its traditions. Fromm argues that the concept of God in the Old Testament underwent an evolution from a "jealous" God to that of a "constitutional monarch", and finally to that of a nameless God bound by the same principles that govern man. He shows how man, once the obedient servant of God, became free to the point of making his own history. Fromm's insights cover a broad area and his work provides a compelling appeal to a rebirth of humanism. In this book, Fromm also implicitly answers the question, "Is religious experience necessarily connected with a belief in God?"