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Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelite religion. Unique among other books on the subject, Israelite Religions takes the Bible seriously as...

they represented different gods, each originating as the eponym of a tribal ancestor and (in large measure) each associated with a different tribe. Only at a later time did the stories of the different tribal ancestors, originally unrelated, merge into a single line of Abram, Isaac, and Jacob. Alt also identified the divine names compounded with El as originating in the urban cult centers. Thus El-Elyon in Jerusalem (Gen. 14:18–22), El-Olam in Beersheba (Gen. 21:33), El-Bethel at Bethel (Gen. 35:7),
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