who created christianity

[thesummerqueen]

Macabees? Isn't this an apocryphal book?

Jewish thought was also being influenced by Greek ideas at that point, yes? Pretty sure I read something about that, and the macabees being a bunch of "thugs".

there is also the interesting grammatical use of the singlue plural within Hebrew, which could be a way of referring to the plurality, yet oneness of God.

FAIL! Or it means that the early Hebrews were polytheistic, a hypothesis supported by the absence of the "royal we" in Yahweh's speeches in later books. Or another possibility is that he's referring to himself and the Heavenly host of angels.

Last I read, there was an acceptance that the very early Hebrews had a god AND goddess. The name Asherah pops up occasionally.