I have posted a number of times in the past about examples of henotheism in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. HERE is a post by Daniel McClellan in which he goes into a significant amount of detail on the topic. I am one who was trained in the manner of Wiggins who he cites in the post. In my reading, statements in Deutero-Isaiah have been taken as monotheistic; however, McClellan makes a good case for pushing the development of monotheism back a bit further and not taking statements in Deutero-Isaiah as strictly monotheistic. Check out his post and see what you think.
2 responses to “Daniel McClellan on Monotheism and Other Gods in the Hebrew Bible”
Hey, thanks for the mention Jeremy. This is an interesting and important topic in my mind. It’s good to see others engaging it as well.
You bet. I find the topic interesting as well. It seems like almost every time I’m reading Psalms I’m seeing reference to other deities. I had just never looked quite so closely at the Deutero-Isaiah texts.