Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Biblical Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
138,4 (2019) 705-720
Keywords:
Jacob
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
God Biblical teaching
;
Bethel (Extinct city)
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.15699/jbl.1384.2019.1
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