Yahweh, god of Israelites, was son of El. Yahweh saying there is no god above me is a coup.
“Though shalt not covet” was specifically a directive against coveting the idols of Canaanites/Phonetians instead of destroying them.
Both of those are an Israelite coup to go forth and murder non Israelites. Unclear why El would hate idolatry. Many references to Canaanite gods in bible, and Canaanites are the descendants of one of Noah’s grandsons.
I guess its just an open source religion where you can fork off at any point.
Abrahamic religions evolved from an earlier religion that we now call Yahwism. Yahwism is super different from Abrahamic religions and it developed alongside the religions of neighboring communities and as a result had a lot of syncretic interactions with them. A ton of inconsistencies in the modern Bible can be attributed to leftover scars from the syncretism and evolution of the religion.
A really interesting aspect of Yahwism is that it was polytheist, with an entire pantheon of gods. Yahweh even had a goddess wife. And he was definitely not the leader nor the most powerful of the gods in the pantheon. He was a warrior storm god, similar to Thor, except he controlled floods. El (now called Elohim), used to be an entirely different god. He took on the grandfatherly wise god role, and he was the king of the gods. Over time, El and Yahweh merged into a single god, and that’s why the God from modern Bible is so bipolar (loving and wise at one moment and bloodthirsty and vengeful the next) - it’s because the wise God stories originated from El and the bloodthirsty God stories originated from Yahweh
Also, Beelzebub arose because the original god (Baal) was a warrior storm god from a neighboring religion and the Yahwists thought that Baal was a Yahweh copycat and didn’t like him lol
some tidbits, IsraELites are named after him, even when Moses tells them he has a better god and should go kill everyone who believed what they used to believe. When Greeks ruled region, Greeks said El and Zeus were same god, and other main Caananite gods had greek equivalents too.
There are big problems with 10 commandments.
Both of those are an Israelite coup to go forth and murder non Israelites. Unclear why El would hate idolatry. Many references to Canaanite gods in bible, and Canaanites are the descendants of one of Noah’s grandsons.
I guess its just an open source religion where you can fork off at any point.
More info on this el guy?
Abrahamic religions evolved from an earlier religion that we now call Yahwism. Yahwism is super different from Abrahamic religions and it developed alongside the religions of neighboring communities and as a result had a lot of syncretic interactions with them. A ton of inconsistencies in the modern Bible can be attributed to leftover scars from the syncretism and evolution of the religion.
A really interesting aspect of Yahwism is that it was polytheist, with an entire pantheon of gods. Yahweh even had a goddess wife. And he was definitely not the leader nor the most powerful of the gods in the pantheon. He was a warrior storm god, similar to Thor, except he controlled floods. El (now called Elohim), used to be an entirely different god. He took on the grandfatherly wise god role, and he was the king of the gods. Over time, El and Yahweh merged into a single god, and that’s why the God from modern Bible is so bipolar (loving and wise at one moment and bloodthirsty and vengeful the next) - it’s because the wise God stories originated from El and the bloodthirsty God stories originated from Yahweh
Also, Beelzebub arose because the original god (Baal) was a warrior storm god from a neighboring religion and the Yahwists thought that Baal was a Yahweh copycat and didn’t like him lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(deity)
some tidbits, IsraELites are named after him, even when Moses tells them he has a better god and should go kill everyone who believed what they used to believe. When Greeks ruled region, Greeks said El and Zeus were same god, and other main Caananite gods had greek equivalents too.