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The Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible
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The Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible. By David Penchansky. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005, xii + 108 pp., $19.95.
"This book represents a subversive reading. It challenges twenty-five centuries of tradition that has read the entire Bible with a monotheistic lens" (p. 91). So begins the conclusion of this book. Penchansky attempts to show that belief in the existence of gods besides Yahweh was always part and parcel of Hebrew religion in the earlier stages o...
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The Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; The Twilight of the Gods: Polytheism in the Hebrew Bible. By David Penchansky. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005, xii + 108 pp., $19.95. "This book represents a subversive reading. It challenges twenty-five centuries of tradition that has read the entire Bible with a monotheistic lens" (p.
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"I am the lord your god and You shall have no other gods before me": Identity and Plurality.
International Review of Mission
; The Old Testament witness is an exhortation to courage and dialogue. Every new generation of Israel faced the challenges of its time without hesitation and often daringly. The history of Israel was marked by serious crises, which could well have wiped out the covenant people. In all, these crises,
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Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; JOHN DAY, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (JSOTSup 265; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000). Pp. 282. (pound)46, $73. John Day's publications are consistently erudite, reveal a fine command of the primary sources as well as recent and seminal secondary sources, and are
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No Freedom Of Religion For Yahweh; Parole Commission Limits Contact With His Followers
The Washington Post
; Yahweh Ben Yahweh -- the white-robed religious leader who was convicted of ordering his disciples to "kill for Yahweh" in 14 violent Miami area murders -- will walk away from a federal prison early next week. But he will not be allowed, as he had hoped, to resume the leadership of his controversial
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When the ancient gods came back.(Books)(On Books)
The Washington Times
; If the late-18th century in Europe, the time of the Enlightenment so-called, was a poor season for a Christian God spurned in the name of reason, those years were no less arid for the ancient Greek gods. To be sure, the ups and downs of Zeus and his lesser Olympians went back beyond the dawn of
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Miami Sect Leader Denies Any Role in 14 Murders; Yahweh Ben Yahweh Calls Statements Allegorical
The Washington Post
; After intense grilling by a battery of attorneys, Yahweh ben Yahweh, the self-proclaimed son of God, ended his testimony this week by denying any role in 14 murders, two attempted murders and a firebombing he is accused of masterminding. U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger, who had said Thursday
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Yahweh Ben Yahweh; Led Violent Cult
The Washington Post
; Yahweh Ben Yahweh, who had a following of thousands as the leader of a violent black supremacist sect in Miami and who later spent years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder, died May 7 of prostate cancer at his home in Opa-Locka, Fla. He was 71. Mr. Yahweh, a charismatic speaker known for his
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Yahweh followers step up campaign to have him moved from Lewisburg
Miami Times
; Nikkii Eckles Miami Times 04-07-1994 Yahweh followers step up campaign to have him moved from Lewisburg. The followers of Yahweh Ben Yahweh, who is serving a lengthy jail sentence on murderconspiracy charges, have stepped up their campaign on his behalf. According to a 30-minute paid television
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Yahweh loses appeal
New York Amsterdam News
; Yusef Salaam New York Amsterdam News 01-27-1996 Yahweh loses appeal. A federal court in Atlanta recently affirmed the 1992 conviction of the leader of the Miami-based ...
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Meet the lawless gods of Homer's Iliad
Redlands Daily Facts
; This week: The professor continues his annual summer series on religion and literature with the lawless gods of Homer's Iliad. I am driving across the Mojave Desert in the southwest of the United States, with the arid waste of the sand all around me. At one time this was a seabed, but now it is as
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