Last Updated on Saturday, 12 September 2009 22:09 Written by Greg Tuesday, 21 October 2008 12:12

I wrote this undergrad paper for an upper level OT class.  I've made only small grammatical changes.  Having gone back over it, I find that the research was much more valuable than the final product.  The length of the paper did no justice to the complexity and breadth of material, and I wish I had been able to address many points in a less cursory fashion.  I remember feeling this way when I wrote the paper.  It was a wonderful exercise in sifting through unstandardized scholarly jargon to find functional terminology, and it opened my eyes to one of the fundamental background issue for OT studies--Israel's interface with Canaanite culture, especially as regards her covenant fidelity to Yahweh.  Additionally, it was very enriching to delve into the work of William Albright , a modern legend in biblical studies.  If I were to rewrite any of the existing parts, I would definitely nuance the bits about the historical reliabilty of the OT a bit.

Early Israelite Monotheism