TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,   Mark S.
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TI  - The Early History of God
T2  - The Biblical Resource Series
SN  - 9780802839725
U1  - 291.211 
CY  - U.S.A
KW  - God (Christianity)
KW  - Bible. -- Old Testament
KW  - Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Israel
N2  - In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional view that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, this provocative book argues that Israelite religion developed, at least in part, from the religion of Canaan. Drawing on epigraphic and archaeological sources, Smith cogently demonstrates that Israelite religion was not an outright rejection of foreign, pagan gods but, rather, was the result of the progressive establishment of a distinctly separate Israelite identity
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