Then Psalm 106 chastens, with Israel getting hardly anything right. If we didn’t know the full Old Testament background, it would be hard to credit both portrayals as true.

It is important to understand that Old Testament Israel was not simply a religious movement, but a system of earthly government. In other words, Israel was both church and state.

The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and the God of Israel. Mark S. Smith - Published on September 22, 2019 ... First, Israel arose out of a Canaanite cultural matrix that has been well studied over the ...