A Plague Upon Your House

8-1 = part 42 of series

Next: 8-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwNOL-ZZ41Q

Playlist 4: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AC54605A65849900
List of uploads within playlist: http://berties-teapot.blogspot.com/

The multi-author nature of the Bible is obvious at many levels. The deities of ancient Israel bear considerable resemblance to the deities of its neighbours, particularly to the gods of the Canaanites: El, Asherah, Anat, and Baal. However, Yahwism ultimately supplanted Canaanite polytheism, in a process that Mark S. Smith has depicted as convergence and differentiation.

The J source assigns the name Yahweh, which is supposedly first revealed to Moses during the "burning bush" encounter on Mount Sinai (P source in Exodus 6:2-4). However, the J source has the first humans addressing the deity as Yahweh in Genesis 4:26.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religions_of_the_Ancient_Near_East
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/aneast.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/nemythology/Ancient_Near_East_Mythology_an...

The Bibles Buried Secrets website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/
including:
Moses and the Exodus
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/meyers.html
Writers of the Bible:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/coogan.html
Archeological Evidence and Timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/evidence.html

This is part of a series illustrating a Yale University course on the Hebrew Bible. The full course can be found here:
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/introduction-to-the-old-testament-hebre...
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/introduction-to-the-old-testament-hebre...

Christine Hayes is Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University for three years. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, Hayes offers undergraduate courses on the literature and history of the biblical and talmudic periods (including Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Introduction to Judaism).

http://www.yale.edu/religiousstudies/facultypages/hayes.html
http://academicearth.org/speakers/christine-hayes-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Simon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza

Diagrams illustrating the timeline and books of the HB/OT:
http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/hebrew-bible-books-timeline.gif
http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/HebrewBibleOutlinePresentation.gif
http://hodos.org/pentateuch/hebrew-bible-people-and-places.gif
http://hodos.org/pentateuch/four-pentateuch-sources.gif
http://hodos.org/pentateuch/genesis-1-11-structure.htm
http://hodos.org/pentateuch/pentateuch-sources-02.gif

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/search.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/gloss.html

http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Study-Bible-Publication-Translation/dp/0195297547

Related Playlists

Archaeology and the Bible
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A44F5FD20B36FB83

Lost Gospels
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=661E4B1AAF4D1482

Who Wrote the Bible?
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1F3086D04ECC5E2C

Yale University course on the New Testament
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A98924FB9F4634D9

The Story of God
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=67D278D8A241DD5F

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