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Oh yeah. Judaism at the time was basically, "God is a big mean motherfucker and if you don't do what he wants, he won't just punish you, he'll punish your entire people collectively."
One interesting topic in the book, How Jesus Became God, was theological work in the first couple hundred years of christianity deciding whether the god of the OT was the same god Jesus praised or a different god.
My headcanon is that the New Testament god was someone else who murdered the old god and usurped his followers, pretending to be him.