Pre-Judaic Semitic Monotheism

Elohim and the Creator in John 1

by ג'ו ג'רדי

Revised Sept 2011

Brief exegesis on how the Yeshua could not have been the Creator of Genesis, thus omitting him from being the word... more Brief exegesis on how the Yeshua could not have been the Creator of Genesis, thus omitting him from being the word that was in the beginning according to the passage in John 1:3.

Review: Early History of God

by Ryan Byrne

RBL (2003)

I monoteismi tra storia, comparazione e tipologia

by Luca Arcari

In press in Historia Religionum 2011

Discorsi monoteistici nell'antichità. L'unicità divina come strumento di auto-definizione

by Luca Arcari

In press in Mediterraneo Antico 2010

Atonisme et monothéisme : à propos d’un débat moderne

by Youri Volokhine

« Atonisme et monothéisme : à propos d’un débat moderne », dans : Akhénaton et Néfertiti : Soleil et ombres des pharaons, Musée d’Art et d’histoire et Silvana Editoriale, Genève-Milan, 2008, pp. 128-141.

West Semitic god El in Anatolian Hieroglyphic transmission

by Ilya Yakubovich

Pax Hethitica: Studies on the Hittites and their Neighbours in Honour of Itamar Singer (ed. Y. Cohen et al.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2010, рp. 385-98.

The deity whose name is derived from the common Semitic *ˀilu ‘god’ and conventionally rendered as El in... more The deity whose name is derived from the common Semitic *ˀilu ‘god’ and conventionally rendered as El in religious-historical literature was venerated in a variety of West Semitic religious traditions. In this contribution I argue that it is also attested in Anatolian transmission, albeit hidden in an adjectival derivative. The content of the Iron Age Luvian inscription TÜNP 1 indicates that its author saw El as a part of his cultural universe, not an exotic foreign deity.