Covers the best guesses current scholarship and archæology gives about the origin of Yahweh following the Bronze Age Collapse.
Covers the best guesses current scholarship and archæology gives about the origin of Yahweh following the Bronze Age Collapse.
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EcstaticChance2050@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 3y
Very informative. Thank you.
_Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Thanks for sharing this, it's got me going down a rabbit hole now! There's just so much stuff surrounding Judaism and early Christianity that you just don't hear about or engage with meaningfully or critically as a Christian, so now I'm enjoying getting stuck into it.
agent_flounder@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y
It's an interesting topic! I havent had a chance to watch this yet.
But the topic is one covered in The Bible Unearthed, a book that describes archaeological evidence of bronze age Judah contradicting historical claims made in the first seven books of the Bible.
The book talks about how a particular king used an official state religion to unify the north and south regions, replacing polytheism with monotheism and basically borrowing and mashing up a couple of the many gods being worshipped at the time and compiling religious myths, traditions, etc. into what is now the first books of the bible.