ACS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Asherah, Ten Commandments

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 200
• Professor: Jean L I

Document Summary

Belief that they were bound for birth to worship only one deity: that deity is yhwh yahweh, which means he will bring into being , one deity is what distinguishes israelites. There was a minority that did not worship yahweh. Religion recovered in biblical texts refers exclusively to yahweh: but religion recovered from archeology acknowledges an unnamed goddess, asherah may be yahweh"s wife. Yahweh, the one and only god, was central to their belief system: punished if they did not worship only him, rewarded if they returned to him. Information of practice is provided through hebrew scripture: contains legal corpora as well; the ten commandments. They also performed sacrifices abraham sacrificed a ram instead of his son: only one legitimate site of sacrificial worship temple on mount moriah in. Jerusalem: but the jews maintained their own temples of sacrificial worship. View that any land outside of israel is unclean and outside food should not be eaten.