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The Hebrew Bible contains many passages that describe God as loving, merciful, and good. It also contains passages that seem to portray God as commanding genocide, the slaughter of innocent children, ...
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This historical reconstruction [that El was originally Israel’s chief deity, and YHWH was originally his son and the patron deity of Israel], in turn, helps to make sense of certain biblical texts ...
(JNS) A lead tablet found at a site where millions of Jews and Christians believe the Israelite leader Joshua built an altar contains the oldest Hebrew text ever found in the Land of Israel as well as ...
That the Hebrew God is the best known of all gods worshiped in the world today needs no explanation. The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims, among others, all accord the ancient Hebrew God their ...
How did a desert war god originally worshiped by ancient Israel’s southern neighbors become the God worshiped today in churches, mosques and synagogues across the globe? Thomas Römer’s “The Invention ...
“Studying the Torah at Hebrew day school,” writes Liana Finck, “I thought of it mostly as a portrait of one childlike (and therefore relatable) character full of feelings and desires: God.” Let There ...
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