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The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts
Mark S. Smith
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| #643108 in Books | 2003-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x1.00 x9.10l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 352 pages||27 of 28 people found the following review helpful.| When Yahweh was a second-tier Storm God from southern Canaan.|By Peter S. Bradley|I am in no position to judge the scholarship of this work. This is my first foray into the world of comparative West Semitic studies, and, so, I have no basis for comparison. Nonetheless, despite the thick and extremely scholarly approach - which pulls not punches for the popular audience - I w||"Brilliant, well-documented, well-organized, and very discomforting. Biblical scholars now recognize that in the pre-exilic era Asherah worship, infant sacrifice, solar veneration, and other religious practices attacked by biblical authors represented normal I
According to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbors worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely at Ugaritic deities, Mark Smith examines the meaning of "divinity" in the ancient near East and considers how this concept applies to Yahweh.
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