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Brief Bible Blunders -- Episode #7
The seventh in a series of quick looks at biblical oddities.
The footprints of the Israelites' polytheistic history can still be seen in biblical texts.
There have been a number of questions in...
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A lot of people have wondered that. It's a vestige of Israelite religion's polytheistic and monolatrous roots.
To give but one example, consider the English regal plural, as in: Queen Elizabeth: "We shall now retire to our quarters to blow some mud."
The fact that "eloha" and "elohim" are grammatically a singular/plural pair doesn't mean they can't be , in this special case, synonyms. True, it would be a linguistic peculiarity. So is "Measles".
When the word 'god' or 'gods' is used in the bible, it isn't always pointing at the "yahweh".
Sometimes its used to point at the 'fake' gods of the other cultures.
Nonetheless there's still alot of contradictions.
Just to be clear, did you mean to refute what I presented here? If so, I'm not seeing it. Thanks.