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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...

Even if it is difficult to bring the varied and very different critical approaches of the eighth-century prophets into one line, I shall attempt here to investigate the essential impulses which their proclamation communicated for the ongoing development of Yahweh religion.131 A first impulse can be recognized in a universalization and potentiation of the notion of God. For the prophets, Yahweh is beyond question the power who determines the history
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