[b-hebrew] El is the god of Israel

LM Barre l_barre at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 30 16:41:42 EST 2009


For those of you who did not read my essay, let me say here that El and Yahweh are different gods who have been syncretized over time.  As long as Israel was Isra-el, El was the god of Israel, not Yahweh.  He was the god of Judah.  True, Yahweh did penetrate the north because of Deborah, but El remained the high god of Israel.  I do not have the reference now, but a coin in the 8th(?) was found in northern Israel in which El was represented as the high god.  So we have the Elohistic Psalter which preserves pure Elohim psalms along with edited ones where Yahweh is identified with El(ohim).  This edition would have been made as a result of the northern refugees coming to Judah after the fall of Samaria.  All of this is descussed in my book, A Brilliant Deceit and Other Essays.

 
Lloyd Barré
the unknown god
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