The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism
Challenging scholars who trace the core of Judaism only as far back as the Babylonian exile in sixth-century BCE, Cook (Virginia Theological Seminary) delves beneath the texts of the Hebrew Bible to explore what he sees as the actual social roots of Israel's ancient covenant beliefs revealed at Mount Sinai. They are not the product of a long history of Israelite religious and cultural development, he argues, but an early, minority perspective from outside of Israel's and Judah's central state...
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1Introduction12The basic features of biblical Yahwism153The flowering of biblical Yahwism454Sinai theology in the eighth century B.C.E.675The place of Jerusalem in Southern Sinai theology : promises to Jerusalem and Zion in Micah1216A social-scientific model for excavating the roots of biblical Yahwism1437The social roots of biblical Yahwism I : Micah and the clan elders of Judah1958The social roots of biblical Yahwism I : Hosea and the traditional priests of the Israelite tribes2319Conclusion267
