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Have you guys ever considered the possibility that the distinction between El and Yahweh was never completely forgotton?

Modern scholarship tends to assert that the distinction between these two gods was completely erased. Completely forgotten.

But was it?

Well let's continue the debate about whether the Mekhilta of R Ishmael is LATE. I say a Tannaitic text isn't old. Help enlighten me about some older Jewish exegesis of the Book of Exodus that we might look to. Looking forward to something substantial but expecting nothing. How about the possibilty ...

800 BC For whatever reason, you and Bingo are talking about things that are 1000 years distant from the relevant time period here. Peter, I misunderstood you. But it’s your own damn fault. You said that the author of Exodus 6:2 was ‘experimenting with divine names’. But now I see that what you mean...

... [1] The idea that there was speculation about and experimentation with the divine names This needs no elaborate proof. [wiki]Shaddai (god)[/wiki] Shaddai (Hebrew: שַׁדַּי) "According to Exodus 6:2–3, Shaddai was the name by which God was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." "God ...

... the whole Jewish concept of a Unspeakable true name of God. You might want to consider the theory proffered by Mark S. Smith et al., which holds that the original god of Israel was a benevolent father-god named “El.” The theory asserts that “El” was El’s proper name, and that “Yahweh” was the p...

Aleph One wrote:I guess I'll just say first that this is a reeeally interesting thread to me ... Good read!

Yep. Despite what others may say - Stephan does have his moments of clarity.

Thanks Stephan.

… and Peter.

maryhelena wrote: I just played around a bit with the search engines and found this gem from jakejonesiv ...

Btw - whatever happened to jakejonesiv?

That guy was/is really fucking bright. His posts were always top-notch.

Now you can search the greater Biblical Criticism Blogosphere, a carefully curated collection of websites, blogs, books, articles, and resources containing about 30 billion web pages indexed and searchable with a Google Custom Search Engine. ... Thanks Peter. And while I’m at it - I've been meaning...

JoeWallack wrote: http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/1_Corinthians_2

Joe,

What do you think of Stuart Waugh’s analysis of 1 Corinthians?

http://www.radikalkritik.de/1CoMR_Waugh.pdf
http://www.radikalkritik.de/1CoKR_Waugh.pdf

The historical Jesus mission was all too short and the philosophy was poorly understood because it clearly did not originate in a Jewish context, hence there was no other way for it but to be encapsulated (in a distorted form) into the mythical ritualistic belief system that became christianity. Hi...