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Christianity was the first technologically driven religion
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Not long after the crucifixion of Jesus, the first Christians got
into a shouting match over the nature of their faith. They lived in
Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish world, and one faction felt that
to be a follower of Christ still meant keeping kosher, just as their
parents had. Others were just as convinced that believing in Jesus
freed them from the religious code of their ancestors.
Frustrated that they couldn't get their point across at home,
members of the latter group decided to, quite literally, take their
side of the argument on the road. Led by St. Paul, they traveled
from city ...
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THE ALPHABET VERSUS THE GODDESS.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
; ...My love of and immersion in mythology does help, but I find, particularly...Tammuz and Ishtar; their West Semitic variants Tammuz and Astarte...Aphrodite; an alternate West Semitic pair, Baal and Anath; and the Aztec mo ther...
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Magazine article from: Skeptic
; ...My love of and immersion in mythology does help, but I find, particularly...Tammuz and Ishtar; their West Semitic variants Tammuz and Astarte...Aphrodite; an alternate West Semitic pair, Baal and Anath; and the Aztec mother...
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CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: lion-dragon myths.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...fighting Tiamat and the Canaanite tale of Baal, Anat, and Yahweh fighting the likes...from the Mesopotamian sphere and reflects mythology older than Enuma Elish; the other is...s exilic period, and reflects West Semitic developments of the combat myth. The...
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The Myth of Cosmic Rebellion: A Study of its Reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...CR) against the Supreme deity of the Semitic pantheon, to be found both in the Ugaritic...descend to the underworld in pursuit of Baal (pp. 85-86, n. 94) has little textual...and, generally, ancient Near Eastern) mythology. Rarely has a hypothesis been presented...
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