Sources

The research behind
the reconstruction.

Books, articles, chapters, commentaries, and specialist studies consulted while researching Discovering Israel's Religion. Sources remain visible whether they supported, complicated, or challenged the final reconstruction.

12Total sources
7Monographs
3Studies / articles
1Scholarly chapter
1Commentary

All Sources

12 sources
Cover of The Origins of Biblical Monotheism
Smith, Mark S.

The Origins of Biblical Monotheism

Yahweh–El convergence and Israel's West Semitic background

pp. 135–148

YahwehElConvergence
Monograph
Cover of The Origin and Character of God
Lewis, Theodore J.

The Origin and Character of God

El, Yahweh, ancestral traditions, and divine profile

pp. 73–118

YahwehElAncestral Religion
Monograph
Cover of The God of Israel
Gordon, Robert P.

Introducing the God of Israel

in The God of Israel

Exodus 6, ancestral El titles, and Yahweh–El identification

pp. 3–19

El ShaddaiYahwehExodus 6
Chapter
Cover of Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?
Tsumura, David Toshio

Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?

Control on proper-name El versus generic il/el and overreading El-language

ElUgaritMethodology
Study
Cover of Israel's Ethnogenesis
Faust, Avraham

Israel's Ethnogenesis

Settlement, Interaction, Expansion and Resistance

Early Israel's substantial formation within the Canaanite highlands

Israelite OriginsCanaan
Monograph
Cover of Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity
Killebrew, Ann E.

Biblical Peoples and Ethnicity

Archaeological and ethnic-formation controls for early Israel

Israelite OriginsArchaeology
Monograph
Cover of Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant
Albertz, Rainer & Rüdiger Schmitt

Family and Household Religion in Ancient Israel and the Levant

Household and lived-religion context in Israel and the Levant

Household ReligionLived Religion
Monograph
Jacob's Dream, image accompanying the article
Schwartz, Baruch J.

Did Jacob Meet YHWH by the Stairway to Heaven in Beth-El?

TheTorah.com, 2018

Textual and interpretive control for Jacob, Bethel, and divine identity

JacobBethelYahweh
Article
JSOT49.12024
Rice, John Will

The Place and the Stone

Reassessing the Priestly Writing's relationship to Bethel

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 49(1)

Sacred place and standing-stone context for Jacob traditions

pp. 35–54

Standing StonesSacred GeographyJacob
Article
Cover of Melchizedek, King of Sodom
Cargill, Robert R.

Melchizedek, King of Sodom

Contested redactional comparator for Genesis 14:22

pp. 36–41

Genesis 14MelchizedekTextual Criticism
Monograph
Cover of Yahweh among the Gods
Hundley, Michael B.

Yahweh among the Gods

The Divine in Genesis, Exodus, and the Ancient Near East

El Roi as a title of Yahweh in the final form of Genesis 16

pp. 210–211

HagarEl RoiYahwehGenesis 16
Monograph
Cover of Genesis by E. A. Speiser
Speiser, E. A.

Genesis

Anchor Bible, vol. 1

Sullam as stairway/ramp and Mesopotamian ziggurat-stairway comparison

p. 218

JacobBethelSacred Geography
Commentary