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This is the first full-scale assessment of the theological, social and ideational implications of our new understandings of ancient Israel’s social and religious development. Scholars now stress the gradual emergence of Israel out of the culture of ancient Palestine and the surrounding ancient Near East rather than contrast Israel with the ancient world. Our new paradigms stress the ongoing and...

Another significant inscription comes from Khirbet el-Qôm, a site near Hebron in Judah, dated to the middle of the eighth century BCE. Here a text was discovered which reads, ‘Blessed be Uriah by Yahweh and his Asherah’. It, too, implies that Asherah is a deity, a consort of Yahweh, capable of imparting blessing.22 However, here again, some scholars have disputed the exact translation. Nonetheless, these two inscriptions have been the critical pieces of information to make scholars suspect that polytheistic
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