Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

Uzi, while this is undoubtedly correct, the writers/editors of the Bible
were monotheists, who were very careful to weed out polytheistic views (they
admitted that such views existed, but did not express them themselves). So
the question is, what was the monotheistic writer of Genesis (P? E?
whatever) thinking. In my understanding, he used "Elohim" as singular. Who
Elohim was addressing here is a more complex issue.


Yigal Levin 

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yes, but still -- could it not all point an earlier, polytheistic
view? after all, Canaanites from whom we Jews may have emerged in part
were polytheists, as were in fact so many of our Israelite/Judahite
ancestors.