Deuteronomy 32 – 8,9 – Hebrew Interlinear Bible : Westminster Leningrad Codex

Deuteronomy 32 – 8,9: “When Elyon assigned the nations their heritage, when he parcelled out the descendants of Adam, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the sons of the Elohim; Yahweh own portion was Jacob, His hereditary share was Israel.”

Yahweh:

The Old Testament narrates a series of events linked to the relationship between a family of Jews – Jacob‘s family –  and a “god”, one individual belonging to the group of the Elohim, Yahweh. (See article Elohim: those who from heaven to earth came.)

He was the supreme ruler and alien-god of the Jews. He is the protagonist of the Old Testament which describes him as a warrior-god. In fact war is the only thing he deals with at least according to the biblical stories. Yahweh will lead the Jews out of Egypt first, and then during the Exodus, into the fierce occupation wars they waged against the neighboring “nations”.

The subsequent monotheistic theological elaborations transformed Yahweh first into the only one and universal God and subsequently arbitrarily identified him with the God-Father of Christian doctrine.

Exodus 15:3: “Yahweh is a man of war Yahweh is his name“

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Regarding Exodus 15:3, we cannot fail to note that the original Hebrew text uses, in reference to Yahweh, (which according to theology should be nothing less than God) the Hebrew term “ish” (אִישׁ) which means “man”: “Yahweh is a man of war”.

The Hebrew text literally say that Yahweh was a man, a warrior. This confirms what we think here at eXtraHumans, that Yahweh and in general all the Elohim are not described by the Bible as spiritual, abstract and indefinite divine entities, but rather as beings in flesh and blood even if much more evolved and advanced of men.

The Bible is quite explicit about the geographical roots of Yahweh, repeatedly linking his presence to the mountainous wilderness and the deserts of the southern Levant. Judges 5:4 says that Yahweh “went forth from Seir” and “marched out of the field of Edom.” Habbakuk 3:3 tells that “God came from Teman,” specifically from Mount Paran.

If, as it seems to be the case, Yahweh ruled those territories he was probably acting as local governor responsible for the control over that patch of land that ranges from the Sinai and Negev to northern Arabia.

 

Milkom:

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Chemosh

Numbers 21: 29: “Woe to you, O Moab! You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He let his sons become fugitives and his daughters be taken captive by the Amorite king Sihon.” 

10. Ancient Gods: From Polytheism To Monotheism

The initially polytheistic stories contained in the ancient tales of Jewish origins (the Bible) were rewritten from a certain point on in a monotheistic version. Also, it was decided to transform Yahweh into the only existing universal God.

According to the Documentary Hypothesis developed originally in the 1870s (and also according to many Bible scholars), it is very possible that different authors (the Jahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, etc) were responsible for editing the biblical stories from the original polytheistic accounts into monotheistic ones. 

Inconsistencies that arise in the texts between monotheism and polytheism confirm this hypothesis. 

The Bible underwent a radical rewriting process in which the gods of the earliest periods as the national gods of monolatrism either disappeared or were passed off for fictitious figures invented by the ancients, while they were instead very much real exactly as Yahweh was.

Major pushes in that sense happened during the 7th to 6th century BC during the Kingdom of Judah and during the Babylonian captivity, and once again in terms monotheistic re-adaptations with the emergence of Rabbinism in the 2nd century CE.

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