The “jealousy” of God : biblical monotheism and anthropology
Abstract: A god’s jealousy of his people is an improbable fact in the history of religions. Present long before the monotheism, this feature reflects the introduction of a foreign god with a strong character in the Israelite highlands in the early Iron Age. The consideration of an accentuated and...
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Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente
2020
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| Sumario: | Abstract: A god’s jealousy of his people is an improbable fact in the history of religions. Present
long before the monotheism, this feature reflects the introduction of a foreign
god with a strong character in the Israelite highlands in the early Iron Age. The
consideration of an accentuated and evolutionary patrilineal trait in a specific kinship
context allows us to offer an attempt to explain this fact. Later, this god and
the cultural and ideological features associated with him became well established
in Judea, a country and a society marked by a strong patrilineal trait too. After the
failure of the messianic revolts against the Romans, a diminished form of matrilineality
became common in rabbinic Judaism. |
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