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Judaism -- What Is It and Where Did It Come From?

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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Early Israelites - Who Were Dedicated to a Certain God?

Cult of the jewish god a grew in popularity only very slowly and gradually, and coexisted alongside devotions to various other gods. This does not mean that these israelites in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth centuries b c were monotheistic. And people could go back and forth being devoted to various different gods. We can see even there are several inscriptions that have been found now of images or statues devoted to away and his ashera. So this way of thinking, in this kind of a moving among different gods and deities, was common among earlyIsraels.

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