/lit/ - Literature

>>23029378
Did you miss this cartoon about transsex?
Or did you fail to read that a blemishless calf or a red bull were the most sacred offerings? Miss the golden calf sequence in the dematerialisation and immanentisation of YHWH on the hill?

Did you even read the bible or did you glance at black things on white stuff?

Hello /lit/,

What books would you recommend to someone trying to understand ancient Yahwism, or the religion of the ancient Israelites prior to the Babylonian exile?

So far, I have seen A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, among others, recommended on Reddit, but I am looking for something that is not so much a "history of the Jews," but an explanation of Iron age Israelite religion, especially in comparison to her neighbors, and perhaps a collection of ancient myths that may or may not exist, or does exist but is excluded from the Old Testament.

According to the Wikipedia page on Yahwism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwism)), Yahweh was thought to have a consort, Asherah, and there is mention of several "lower gods" but this article fails to outline any stories or myths in which they have involvement.

If you could help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

>>19005566
Aren’t you missing a connection on your chart, bud?

>>17519878
>>God is unique, nothing is like him; he is neither body, nor individual, nor substance, nor accident. He is beyond time. He cannot dwell in a place or within a being; he is not the object of any creatural attribute or qualification. He is neither conditioned nor determined, neither engendered nor engendering. He is beyond the perception of the senses. The eyes cannot see him, observation cannot attain him, the imagination cannot comprehend him. He is a thing, but he is not like other things; he is omniscient, all-powerful, but his omniscience and his all-mightiness cannot be compared to anything created. He created the world without any pre-established archetype and without an auxiliary.
None of that sounds like this guy.
It doesn't even say anything about God's 16 inch cock.

Real answer:
This is what happens when you ponder the infatuate, every culture has an idea of this thing you described that you call 'God'. Everyone had a different name for it
The Jews called it 'God', tricked everyone into using there definition, and oh by the way under the Jewish definition the Jews are God's chosen people and everyone else are human shaped cattle.

Islam is exactly that, Judaism for non-Jews.
You need only look at the state of Israel for proof.
2 billion muslims, every Imam preaching death to the Jews, state of Israel continues to expand while every muslim leader wants to make a deal. Muslims are happy slaves to the simple philosophical ideas they are allowed to think about.

Jesus was a half Jew who went insane over being a 56% and created christianity by combining all the tricks rabbis use to gain and grow a following with a mix of Indian and Roman philosophy. This is why Jews hate Jesus, he represents everything a Jew would want to be, but instead of ruling the world he's nailed to a cross, even worse it ruins the fantasy that just maybe I might be the messiah when you have Jesus worshiped all over the world as the messiah.

tl;dr god exists, his name is not god, and no organized religion owns a copyright on him.

>>16570936

One word: niggerdemon

Beyond, the almighty GOD of the Christians, YHWH the painted nigger demon
Gaze upon his lofty penis, his grace be upon you.

What are some books that detailedly describe the origins of Yahweh and Jewish mythology?

>The Israelites originally worshipped Yahweh alongside a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baa but in time El and Yahweh became conflated.

>A number of scholars have drawn the conclusion that infant sacrifice, whether to the underworld deity Molech or to Yahweh himself, was a part of Israelite/Judahite religion until the reforms of King Josiah in the late 7th century BCE. Prayer played little role in official worship.

>Asherah, formerly the wife of El, was worshipped as Yahweh's consort or mother; potsherds discovered at Khirbet el-Kôm and Kuntillet Ajrûd make reference to "Yahweh and his Asherah", and various biblical passages indicate that her statues were kept in his temples.

>The worship of Yahweh alone began at the earliest in the 9th century BCE, but even then it remained the concern of a small party before gaining ascendancy in the Babylonian exile and early post-exilic period.The early supporters of this faction did not believe Yahweh was the only god in existence, but instead believed he was the only god the people of Israel should worship.

>Tacitus, John the Lydian, and Cornelius Labeo all identify Yahweh with the Greek god Dionysus. Jews themselves frequently used symbols that were also associated with Dionysus such as kylixes, amphorae, leaves of ivy, and clusters of grapes

How do Christians rationalise the fact that Yahweh was originally just another obscure god whose pantheon role, powers and dominion developed over time like any other man-made religion?

>>15083964
>YHWH is not just a volcano demon
Now you've just started posting cringe

>>14434700
I already got a reading list composed by friends and an ex that lurks this board. I meant to ask if there were any specific "general" threads that pop up every so often that have any interesting discussion...Oh and just because I'm here on vacation, if you're board you should check out /x/ it's my home online.

I just need one picture to logically refute all abrahamic religions

>>12658487
lol

>>10209814
the Book of Daniel in The Bible

>>10103177
So we have many attritubutes (or hypostasis, per Pardee) attributed to this superlative syncretic deity, who is usually identified with Yahweh. But who is this mysterious Yahweh? Mark S. Smith (among others) proposes that he was a deity worshipped by tribes to the south of Judah, we have some circumstantial evidence of him being worshipped by tribes to the south west via the Kuntillet Ajrud pithos sherd (see pic) where Yahweh is apparently depicted as a bull alongside a consort called Asherah. Recall that Asherah is cognate to the Canaanite Athirat who is the goddess consort of El the chief Canaanite god. Additionally, the bull is a common ancient near eastern cultic symbol and is explicitly the symbol of El in the Canaanite inscriptions (CAT 1.14:II:22-24 and others).

This doesn't mean that the ancient Israelite religion just copied the other Canaanite beliefs. But it does show that the Yahweh cult developed within the cultural mileu of west semitic society and brought together many Canaanite god-attriubutes in the person of the patron deity of the Israelites, Yahweh-Elohim.

The most ancient view in Israelite religion was probably that Yahweh-Elohim was a supreme god who was more powerful than the other national gods. This innovation made the patron god not just the best god, but the only god worth worshipping, since the other gods were weaker and were evil! This Yahweh-supremacist cult was one among many cults in ancient Judah and Israel, which is demonstrated by the vast arhceological evidence of idol worship in Israel-Judah, and the textual evidence in the books of Samuel and Kings which frequently describe polytheism and idol worship in Israel and Judah, which was even endorsed by several kings (e.g. king Ahab, who gets very bad treatment by the Yahweh-worshipping historians in the later chapters of 1 Kings).

[p.s. here is the Yahweh and Asherah carving, forgot it in the previouspost]

>>9983732
>seeing beauty in this