The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
New Books in Literary Studies
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The God of Israel, Yahweh or the Other Gods?
I think it shows you put your money where your mouth is. Yeah. I remember in, I study like medieval and early modern history and I just remember how much King Louis of France when he was on crusade or when he went to Egypt or something like that paid for a fragment of the of the true cross. How do biblical scholars understand this religion that has survived everything survived the Bible on conquest and all this everything else? So this is such an interesting question. It's so fascinating to kind of look at the history,. because it begins with the sort of sense of what scholars call nono latery (non-monotheism) The awareness that there are some other gods in the world
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