caledor dragonmaster
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As the title question
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Who was the God with Abraham who had entered Canaan's land after his expulsion from the Ur? El, the supreme God of Canaan, or Jehovah
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Someone who knows Hebrew would be able to confirm, but I believe "El" is just a generic Hebrew word for god. Sometimes it refers to The Big Guy and other times it refers to other gods.
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Not only that, but in Canaanite mythology,El is the supreme of the Canaanite Pantheon and the Creato
That's one of its usages. But it apparently has others.
El (deity) - Wikipedia
So the answer to your question is, they're not necessarily different deities.
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caledor dragonmaster
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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，That's one of its usages. But it apparently has others.
El (deity) - Wikipedia
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So the answer to your question is, they're not necessarily different deities.
My question is whether Jehovah was a foreign God to the Hebrews
caledor dragonmaster
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I'm working on material about the time of Abraham, so I'm very interested in that period
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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
Yahweh wasn't a "foreign God," but the Hebrews likely borrowed terms and titles of other gods from neighboring cultures to describe him. Ancient cultures would not uncommonly borrow features of mythology and theology from one another and apply it to their own religions.
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- This is true
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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
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Even in his youth, he was sent by his father into the sacrificial class of Ur to learn to serve the gods
I think Jehovah is the same as El.
See
Joel S. Burnett's A Reassessment of Biblical Elohim.
Also, a very readable source on UR isAmanda H. Podany's Weavers, Scribes and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East.