Old Gods
El, by oldworldgods Propers: Christ the King , AD 2024 B Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for You know his sins are great. Grace mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Early Israelite religion arose in a Canaanite context. We know the Hebrew Bible tends to cast the Canaanites as Israel’s ancient enemies, but it also admits that they were all related peoples. They shared semitic languages and ancestors and cultural ideas. Indeed, their enmity is treated, in accounts both classical and contemporary, as a sort of family feud. While influenced by Egyptian monotheism—the story behind the story of the Exodus—and shaped into what we would recognize as Judaism during the Babylonian Exile, Israel was Canaanite at heart, even if she proved herself the black sheep of the family. Understanding this can help us to read the Bible, because a lot of our early Scriptures are Mesopotamian and Canaanite stories flipped on their heads. The first
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