Plantingian Religious Epistemology and World Religions by Erik Baldwin Tyler Dalton McNabb

Author:Erik Baldwin,Tyler Dalton McNabb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498552943
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

God (elohim) stands in the divine assembly of El (adat el),

Among the divinities (elohim) He pronounces judgment.

I myself presumed that You are gods,

Sons of the most High (Elyon),

Yet like humans you will die,

And fall like any prince.

Arise, oh God, judge the world;

For you inherit all the nations.

Clark notes that readings according to which “the divinities” or “gods” are understood to be angelic beings or earthly rulers aren’t plausible because they are out of step with the meanings of the Hebrew terms. He argues that these texts show that early on the Hebrews affirmed both polytheism, the view that many gods exist, and henotheism, the view that many gods exist but only one should be worshiped.57

Later, around 700–800 CE, in Isa. 44: 6-8, we find evidence of the unequivocal affirmation of monotheism:

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