Has nothing to do with the data , since we know that the language may be Hebrew, Canaanite, Phoenician or Moabite.
However most probably man considered other man to be also God in ancient times.
Like for example , Anubis
There is a 5,070-year-old Egyptian wooden tablet that was used as a tag attached to goods shipped. The legend on the tablet is the address of the recipient or sender of the goods. It has nothing to do with religion or religious texts.
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The legend on the tablet reads: “[To/from] The judge Anubis in the Mesquet chamber of judge’s gown, administrator of Horus’ enclosure".
Legend of the tablett:
Here is only shown a passage in a religious text (The Book of the Dead) that refers to the judge god Anubis in the judgment hall of the Osirian after-death judgment as "Administrator of the god's enclosure".
The term 'Horus' meant 'Lord' and so did the word 'god'. The :enclosure' was actually a Human Breeding Grounds Institution established and operated by the king (the Lord). The real-life judgment (assessment for social classification) of the offspring produced in the human breeding grounds of the king, was transformed, by the ancient Egyptian theologians, into the Last Judgment of what they taught to be potentially after-death judgment … which the ancient Greek philosophers copied.
In the same way, we can say that 'Judge Anubis' was a real person who was attributing social ranks to youngsters born and raised in human breeding grounds, was presented as an immaterial god who was judging the dead.
Yes. religion is syncretic, ideas are passed on, we see this in Judaism and Christianity as well. Not sure what point you are making.
The earliest indication of the Israelites is from 1200 BCE.
William Dever :
Dever: No Egyptian text mentions the Israelites except the famous inscription of Merneptah dated to about 1206 B.C.E. But those Israelites were in Canaan; they are not in Egypt, and nothing is said about them escaping from Egypt.
Q: Tell us more about the Merneptah inscription. Why is it so famous?
Dever: It's the earliest reference we have to the Israelites. The victory stele of Pharaoh Merneptah, the son of Ramesses II, mentions a list of peoples and city-states in Canaan, and among them are the Israelites. And it's interesting that the other entities, the other ethnic groups, are described as nascent states, but the Israelites are described as "a people." They have not yet reached a level of state organization.
So the Egyptians, a little before 1200 B.C.E., know of a group of people somewhere in the central highlands—a loosely affiliated tribal confederation, if you will—called "Israelites." These are our Israelites. So this is a priceless inscription.
The Hebrews are ancestors of the Jews, who originally came from modern-day Iraq.
Hebrews and Israelites are basically the same. I am aware of this. The first known mention is 1200 BCE.
Actaually , you are wrong.
We don't know exactly , but we know that it may be Hebrew, Canaanite, Phoenician or Moabite.
"May be"? So I'm not wrong, we don't know. Like I said.
That is because ancient Levant was mainly polytheistic belief based society.
One thing to note that in those polytheistic religion , YHWH was considered a lesser God.
But we see that lasser God YHWH speaking in Genesis narrative.
First, no, early Israelites were also polytheistic. Yahweh was under EL and given Israel as his inheritance.
Yahweh is not speaking in Genesis, it's a story about Yahweh speaking using Mesopotamian stories and upgraded for a new myth.
FRANCESCA STAVRAKOPOULOU on the Bible, Jesus, death threats, Asherah,
47:40 Many temple sites found figurines of a common goddess Ashera.
Most scholars now agree we should probably consider Ashera to have been Yahweh’s consort.
Who Was Baal?
1:11:51 West Semitic Pantheon, El is supreme
1:12:02 Later Yahweh absorbs El and his story and takes his wife Ashera as a consort
Considered by polytheistic Canaan.
Then you have YHWH in Biblical narrative totally oposite and in different role.
No, this is early Israel as I have said. Archaeologists have found thousands of fertility goddess figurines at sites like Taanach.
The Biblical version was a later invention, 600 BCE.
True , but irrelevant
The funny thing is that you have a very strange appearance of a man called Yeshua who considered himself to be that YHWH.
What's funny is it happens after the Hellenistic Greeks occupy Israel and is the same thing that happened in every nation occupied by the Greeks.
Jesus represents is what was trending at the time, Greek Hellenism - savior demigods, salvation for souls which belong in an afterlife, much has been written on this in scholarship.
Dr Baden is the expert in Hellenistic religion, as is J.Z. Smith. Christianity is Hellenism blended with Judaism. The Persian influence came during the 2nd Temple Period.
-During the period of the
Second Temple (c.515 BC – 70 AD), the Hebrew people lived under the rule of first the Persian
Achaemenid Empire, then the
Greek kingdoms of the
Diadochi, and finally the
Roman Empire.
[47] Their culture was profoundly influenced by those of the peoples who ruled them.
[47] Consequently, their views on existence after death were profoundly shaped by the ideas of the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans.
[48][49] The idea of the
immortality of the soul is derived from Greek philosophy[49] and the idea of the
resurrection of the dead is derived from Persian cosmology.
[49] By the early first century AD, these two seemingly incompatible ideas were often conflated by Hebrew thinkers.
[49] The Hebrews also
inherited from the Persians,
Greeks, and Romans the idea that the
human soul originates in the divine realm and seeks to return there.
[47] The idea that a
human soul belongs in Heaven and that Earth is merely a temporary abode in which the
soul is tested to prove its worthiness became increasingly popular during t
he Hellenistic period (323 – 31 BC).
[40] Gradually, some Hebrews began to adopt the idea of Heaven as the eternal home of the righteous dead.
[40]
(Sanders, Wright)