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Old Ones in the Old Book, The - Pagan Roots of The Hebrew Old Testament (Paperback)
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Old Ones in the Old Book, The - Pagan Roots of The Hebrew Old Testament (Paperback)
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Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
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The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most
ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over
the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached its
final form at the hands of editors who were monotheists. They
believed that their god Yahweh was the only true God, and that he
had been worshipped exclusively by their ancestors from the time of
Abraham. They edited their sources to reflect this belief. However
we can strip away this veneer of later monotheism to view the
ancient stories themselves. These bear witness to Israelite
religion as practised before 600 BCE. Far from being monotheistic,
this religion was a fascinating polytheistic paganism, close to the
religion of the surrounding Canaanites. In this religion Yahweh,
far from being God as understood by modern western monotheism, was
a distinctive tribal deity. This book will be of particular
interest to the large numbers of western people who come from a
broadly Christian or Jewish background but have left those faiths
behind to explore paganism or New Age spirituality.
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