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The Pentateuch is one anchor of the Western religious heritage, a rich source of theological and spiritual instruction that can be plumbed again and again. In Treasures Old and New, accomplished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp engages several interesting topics in dialogue with texts from the Pentateuch. In keeping with the view that the Pentateuch is far too multiplex to be encapsulated in...

Surely, YHVH’s portion is his people, Jacob is his allotted heritage! Elyon is certainly an epithet of El, whatever else it is, and El is the supreme god in the Canaanite pantheon, which, according to the Ugaritic Baal text (2.6.44–46), comprised seventy divine beings. The point would then be that YHVH has been co-opted by El into the Canaanite pantheon and assigned as guardian deity to Israel. That Israel was distinctive and distinctively nonautochthonous from the beginning cannot be sustained
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