Kernel John's Blog – April 2011 Archive (1)

The Great Transformation

Excerpt From: The Great Transformation - Karen Armstrong – Chapter 2: Ritual (C. 900 to 800BCE)

(scanned - pages 73-77 - footnotes removed)

 

. . . The biblical historian who wrote a very negative account of Ahab in the first book of Kings was appalled by Jezebel, because she had imported the cult of Phoenician Baal into Israel. But he was writing in the seventh century, in a very different world. In the ninth century, Ahab's marriage would have been considered a…

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