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Michael Bird – Jesus Among the Gods

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Is Yahweh Similar to Marduk and Baal in a Different Costume?

The term Elohim is applied to quite a range of figures in the Bible. Some scholars want to say that Yahweh is just Baal in a different costume. But people are drawing from the same religious realities of the ancient Near East or the Second Temple period. And because the first Christians were thinking, wow, something remarkable has happened.

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