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Twilight of the gods : polytheism in the Hebrew Bible

Since the middle of the twentieth century, one of biblical scholarship's chief assumptions has been that ancient Israel evolved out of the polytheism of surrounding cultures into an ethical monotheism. However, this consensus has fallen apart in recent years. Scholars now know that early Israel was surrounded by a very polytheistic culture and...
Print Book, English, cop. 2005
1ª ed
Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville [Kentucky], cop. 2005
108 p. ; 23 cm
9780664228859, 0664228852
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