According to the Midrash, Abraham was expelled for preaching monotheism in the sacred city of Ur, the center of Sumerian polytheism, and for destroying idols in the sacrificial temples
From my personal reading, it is more likely that Abraham signed a covenant with the local Most High in Canaan to obtain the right to settle in Canaan.
They are more akin to a common memory of the Semites
Because the title El is itself the title of Canaanite God,And Yahweh, a Bronze Age god, was once known in Canaan, it can also refer specifically to the Creator of the Canaanite Pantheon,
My question is whether Jehovah was a foreign God to the Hebrews
As far as I am concerned, the teachings of Jesus are still not actually out of line with the teachings of Judaism, and he does not want to abolish the old laws. The doctrinal development of Christianity after the death of Jesus was more based on the development of Paul, and it completely became...
As a lover of foreign religions, I tried my best to reinterpret Mishrad's version of Genesis in poetic terms.
By the way, the Yahweh origin hypothesis I'm taking is from the Sinai Peninsula (even the Arabian volcanic god origin hypothesis), combined with the legend of Leviathan.
Chapter zero:...