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Yahweh Among the Gods
What do the Bible and neighboring inscriptions reveal about Yahweh’s place within an older world of gods and divine councils?
Part II — Israel Emerges
Who stood around Yahweh?
What do the Bible and neighboring inscriptions reveal about Yahweh’s place within an older world of gods and divine councils?
Biblical texts still remember a populated divine world: councils assemble, national gods rule peoples, heavenly beings deliberate, and Yahweh increasingly stands above them.
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