@LacanianC
@forsman_josh
The OT extensively discusses the fact that Israelites habitually syncretized with Canaanite religions. There are a ton of references to Asherah in particular, who the Israelites used to worship as the consort of the Lord, particularly when they intermarried with the Canaanites.
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I am reading Fr. Stephen de Young's Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century and it is blowing my tiny little MIND
like, this is not EO apologetics, it's something else & something more intense than that
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@suzania
It’s a good reading but Young is absolutely out of his depth when discussing the OT. He does not engage with modern scholarship at all which shows how the understanding of Yahweh gradually developed over time from its Caananite origins in a polytheistic pantheon
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@LacanianC
@suzania
Probably because that is garbage and wrong. Modern scholarship *posits* that it doesn’t show it.
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@forsman_josh
@suzania
Oh so the archeological findings of stone tablets that say “Yahweh and his asherah” just don’t exist? Or that the parallels with Ugaritic texts discussing Baal and the Leviathan narratives in the OT just don’t exist?
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@LacanianC
@forsman_josh
Archaeological confirmation is of course always nice, but we knew about all that because it’s in the Bible. It’s the main problem that Israel wrestles with after they enter Canaan.
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@suzania
@forsman_josh
Yes, but the OT covers up that even under Yahwehism there was a good period where the Israelites worshipped Yahweh.
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@LacanianC
@forsman_josh
You’re claiming that the OT covers up the fact that there were various good times (not many, but occasional) when Israel worshiped Yahweh?
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