(March 26, 2019 at 8:39 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Even if creation was to be proved tomorrow, it wouldn't immediately prove the Abrahamic god.
Yeah, as I've mentioned YHWH was pinched from the Chaldeans. He was only one among many gods. He even had a wife, Asherah, who was part of the Chaldean pantheon.. (see quote below)
When the Canaanites borrowed YHWH, he was only a tribal god. He did not become the only god, lord of the universe until well after the putative Exodus.
Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, (Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-2852-3, 2005),[1] is a book by Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Did God Have a Wife? was intended as a popular work making available to the general public the evidence long known to archaeologists regarding ancient Israelite religion: namely that the Israelite god of antiquity (before 600 BCE), Yahweh, had a consort, that her name was Asherah, and that she was part of the Canaanite pantheon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did_God_Have_a_Wife%3F
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As for the polytheistic nature of the ancient Canaanites/ Hebrews. A fascinating read, recommended.
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, a book published in 2001, discusses the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins and content of the Hebrew Bible. The authors are Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, an archaeologist, historian and contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed