Bethel and the Persistence of El: Evidence for the Survival of El as an Independent Deity in the Jacob Cycle and 1 Kings 12:25-30
According to a common scholarly model of Israelite religion, the deity El disappears under a rising tide of Yahwism sometime in the early monarchic period. In this article, by contrast, I use several texts preserved in the Jacob cycle to argue that El remained a distinct deity at Bethel until at lea...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Scholar's Press
[2019]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Jahr: 2019, Band: 138, Heft: 4, Seiten: 705-720 |
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B JEROBOAM II, King of Israel B Jews B Gods B Biblical Theology B Bibel. Könige 1. 12,25-30 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | According to a common scholarly model of Israelite religion, the deity El disappears under a rising tide of Yahwism sometime in the early monarchic period. In this article, by contrast, I use several texts preserved in the Jacob cycle to argue that El remained a distinct deity at Bethel until at least the eighth century BCE and possibly much later. I also argue on the basis of 1 Kgs 12:25-30 that El did not begin to lose ground to YHWH at Bethel until Jeroboam II introduced YHWH to Bethel as a subordinate deity in the eighth century BCE. |
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| ISSN: | 1934-3876 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of Biblical literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jbl.2019.0037 |