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Israel's Ancestral Gods
How did Yahweh become connected with Israel’s older ancestral gods, traditions, and sacred places?
Part II — Israel Emerges
What did Israel inherit?
How did Yahweh become connected with Israel’s older ancestral gods, traditions, and sacred places?
Israel’s ancestral traditions preserve El-language, sacred places, stones, and divine names that illuminate how Yahweh became identified with the gods of Israel’s remembered past.
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