Yigal Ben Nun
In the entire biblical library there is almost no trace of belief in one, universal, abstract God who denies the very existence of other gods. Throughout the entire royal period until the Persian period, Israelites and Jews worshipped many gods; statues of God, Asherah, and other gods were placed in the Temple in Jerusalem, and the people bowed down to them; God is a new god who originated in northern Arabia and arrived here not before the days of Jehoshaphat and the house of Omri; God had a consort, Asherah; Shaphan ben Ajjahu initiated a theological-political reform and compiled its principles in the Book of Deuteronomy; Shaphan's ritual reform from the time of Josiah failed but influenced the birth of Judaism; belief in a supreme God, creator of heaven and earth, developed under the influence of Persian culture (because in the days of the First Temple he was perceived as a territorial god, that is, as ruling only in his own land while the gods of other nations ruled in their lands); … the Jewish religion was born only after the cessation of sacrifices in the Roman period, parallel to the spread of Christianity."
Rabbi, what do you think of his claims?
Strong arguments, aren't they?
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