Unique origin of YHWH faith - a piece of evidence

While I'm thinking of it, I'd like to share a piece of evidence that the God of the Bible is real, which I gleaned from a course in "The Religion of Biblical Israel" which I took through the Spertus Institute. People often think of Christianity as one "mythology" among many, but the prof, Dr. Rachel Dulin, argued well how the ancient Israelite faith in YHWH was uniquely unlike the mythological religions of their neighbors. Myths generally focus on the "private lives" of the gods and goddesses - their births, marriages, affairs, deaths, wars, parties, etc. - and this world and the people in it are almost an afterthought. Much of it takes place before the creation of, and apart from, the world we live in. But the Bible contains no stories of YHWH's private life, before, during, or after creation. It focuses instead upon YHWH acting in the world we live in, interacting with regular human beings. In ancient Middle Eastern polytheism the king was a sort of in-between person, a point of contact between the realm of the deities and the world of humanity. It is for that very reason that it took a long time before kings were allowed in Israel. The pagan deities were really a part of the universe, and were, like people, subject to forces of nature, magic, etc. not quite under their control. YHWH, on the other hand, is transcendant over nature as Creator, and not a part of it. The reason why magic was considered so evil was that it was a power even higher than the gods and goddesses, and therefore a direct rival to YHWH in a way that the finite, limited deities were not. If you read Leviticus and come across some puzzling thing like not boiling a kid (goat) in its mother's milk, it is a direct, opposing reaction to something that Israel's neighbors did. Israel was to be set apart. Nothing like YHWH faith had ever arisen anywhere. It was unique in the ancient world - something we can easily overlook when there are now so many religions rooted in Abrahamic monotheism.

I believe this is a piece of evidence that YHWH is real. An utterly unique religion is likely to have an utterly unique origin. I believe that origin is in real encounters of real people with the real, living YHWH. Oh, another thing - no other faith cultivated the kind of personal relationship of love and affection between deity and humanity than the relationship of YHWH with His chosen people. This was encouraging to me as I seek to review the roots of my faith as a Christian believer.