Judaism is traditionally considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions in the world, although it is believed that the earliest Israelites (pre-7th century BCE) were polytheistic, who evolved into henotheistic and later monolatristic, rather than monotheistic. God in later Judaism was strictly monotheistic, an absolute one, indivisible, and incomparable being who is the ultimate cause of all existence. The Babylonian Talmud references other, "foreign gods" as non-existent entities to whom humans mistakenly ascribe reality and power. One of the best-known statements of Rabbinic Judaism on monotheism is the Second of Maimonides' 13 Principles of faith: