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Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Did the Old Testament writers borrow ideas from their pagan neighbors? And if they did, was it done uncritically? John Currid, a distinguished Old Testament scholar and archaeologist engages with this controversial question by carefully comparing the biblical text to other ancient Near Eastern documents. Well-researched and thoughtfully nuanced, Currid aims to outline the precise relationship...

example, picture the beginning of creation taking form as a primordial island or hillock rises up out of the watery void. On that mound the creator-god Atum first created himself and then created the other gods by various means. To the contrary, Genesis 1 denies that there was any physical element in existence prior to God’s creative labors. He simply created the universe ex nihilo (“out of nothing”).25 Many scholars argue that the “deep” in Genesis 1:2 is a reference to primordial waters that existed
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