You might notice this view of time is not only unlike Canaanite or pagan time, it is also very ungreek. The Greeks tended to think that time was cyclical, and that the material world concerns a set of repetitions, into which you could be born many times. But the aim was to get out of the material world, and time, to contemplate and participate in the Eternal, the really real, which is neither material nor temporal. The various Renaissance pictures in this room taking up classical themes evoke this view. Cupid and Venus, for example, are mythical figures, outside time - though of course they also generate the endless cycles and repetitions of love and reproduction that we mortals are caught up in.
Some Eastern religions have a similar feel.
It is a singular evaluation of time and its potential. But the really detailed accounts, concerning human motivations and actions, and their intermeshed consequences, are to be found in the stories of David's court and, after him, of Solomon's Empire. Once time gets a shape, other than cyclical repetition, and becomes the medium for meaning, persons and their behaviour become significant in quite a new way. There followed the Exile - during which period much of the thinking about time that I have been recounting was formulated clearly, and refined. So they began to look for God's Messiah, his anointed or chosen one, in whom the nature and meaning of time would be clarified.