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The religion of Israel is described as polytheistic before Persian return, with Yahweh at or near the top of a pantheon including Baal and Asherah.
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The religion of Israel is described as polytheistic before Persian return, with Yahweh at or near the top of a pantheon including Baal and Asherah.
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"...is at the top, but they also celebrate other gods, like Baal and Asherah, okay? We know because they're written down in the Bible...."
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"But after the Persian... but after the Persian Empire returns them to Judaism, they became a monotheistic religion, or the beginnings of a monotheistic..."
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The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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