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A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the first of two volumes, a comprehensive history of Israelite religion is offered as a strong addition to the Old Testament Library series. A rich treatment of their mode of worship draws from multiple books of the Bible. The much-anticipated second volume of A History of Israelite Religion begins at the period of the exile and carries the investigation of Israelite religion to the period of...

the world of the symbols of Yahweh religion calls for a scientific explanation. As I have explained at another point,23 this difference is connected with a sociological difference: from the start Yahweh religion is functionally related to the wider group of the tribe, the tribal alliance and then the people, whereas in accordance with the genealogical fiction that the people grew out of the families of its ancestors, the tradents of Genesis seek to describe the small group of the family and the religion
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