Tag: Canaanites

• God’s Life Story (ii)

  A previous post noted that the first Israelites were Canaanites, and so their chief god was called El or Elohim (as in the name Isra-el). How many other gods and goddesses did they follow? The answer is, lots! Unsurprisingly, the Hebrew Bible doesn’t go into details, but frequently denounces Israelites who followed the weather/fertility god…

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  18th Mar 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, History, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Baal, Canaanites, El, Exodus, Gods, Israelites, Mayflower Pilgrims, Mount Sinai, Yahweh

• God’s Life Story

  When people give thought to the word ‘God’, they may well have sophisticated notions about its meaning, and might use such words as infinite, eternal, all-powerful and so on. But let’s step back a bit, and focus on the Jewish-Christian God. If we journey back in time, we discover that he has a ‘life history’…

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  2nd Mar 2023

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, History, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Archeology, Asherah, Canaanites, Christian, El, God, Goddess, Israel, Jewish, Ras Shamra

• Genesis One – Us, Images, and Subduing

  “God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule … over all the earth … and subdue it.’ Firstly, to whom is God referring when he uses the plural “us” and “our” in relation to “image” and “likeness”? The answer is to be found in the literary and…

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  15th Mar 2022

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Canaanites, Climate Change, Earth, Genesis, God, Image of God, Other Creatures, Yahweh