Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals (Biblia.com)

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In this short, accessible and readable book, Professor Soggin gives an account of all the features of Israelite and Jewish religion in the biblical period. After a radical assessment of the nature of the sources and the problems of using them historically, he discusses the origin of monotheism and Israel’s belief in its one God Yahweh. Then follow accounts of the three most important features in...

guaranteed the fertility of the soil, the flock, the herds and the family became a necessity. So it is not surprising that in the Hebrew Bible, too, there are frequent accusations that the people are faithful to Ba‘al and Astarte, abandoning the God of Israel (see 1.1e). (a) Many texts come from the Syrian city-state of Ugarit (a few kilometres north of Laodicea), destroyed at the end of the thirteenth century BCE (Liverani 1979 and del Olmo Lete 1981). These were discovered during the excavations

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