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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 origin of Yahweh religion is indissolubly connected with the process of the political liberation of the Exodus group. It is the spark which helps to ignite a long-drawn-out, tumultuous social conflict. The book of Exodus reports in different ways how this assimilated group of foreign forced labourers, with no solidarity, incapable of political action and oppressed, by the initative of the god Yahweh secured a political leader and a new
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