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Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt mentions Baal, in a way that’s more concerned than it needs to be.
Comment on susjay
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 month agoIt mentions Baal, in a way that’s more concerned than it needs to be.
deacon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Correct, and fundamentally you don’t make laws to prohibit something nobody is doing.
A few different gods had to get rationalized or syncretized in one way or another as I understand it.
Not only Baal but that pesky Asherah and her complicated and inconvenient situationship with YHWH.