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To: TigerPaw who wrote (60134)10/14/2014 4:58:04 PM
From: 2MAR$  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
Almost the entire Jewish angel pantheon is taken from the Persian Zoroastrians after that contact in Babylon, the Hebrews could not borrow these beliefs fast enough, some listed here there were many more.
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Hebrews were client subjects of those Persian 'messiahs' & 'king of kings' until the Hellenes arrive later, so take much of their theology from them. Earlier though you are right & we see in the Elephantine settlement in Egypt 600BC on, they brought their Babylonian & Caananite equivilent goddesses with them 'Anath-Bethel' & 'Anath-Yahu' and both are associated with the cow which equalled fertility .

Those goddesses were the equivilent of Astarte Aphrodite & Anat the wife of Baal from Babylon, theres where the golden calf came in, the hebrews were the best off they had ever been when worshipping those golden cows, it was all down hill from there , very down hill.



To: TigerPaw who wrote (60134)10/14/2014 5:30:12 PM
From: 2MAR$  Respond to of 69300
 
Also noted in Elephantine Egypt 600BC , Hebrew women had far more power than any back in Jerusalem, they could divorce their husbands & give offerings in person. Post exhile those that chose to return to Jerusalem were discouraged from marrying non Jewish women for fear of those corrupting influences would return ie: Jezebel and her worship of Baal & his queen of heaven Ashereth the best example.

The cute thing about all this, is what happened to this 1500BC moses story & Abraham going even farther back than that? One god, coveneant, absolutely no way. This myth of monotheism of the Hebrew going back to Moses is as tall tale as that 2million mile tall angel they stole from the Persians. Never happened, not a chance Moses ever existed.

(This becomes even more problematic later in Christian era when wisdom literature invokes the female dieties again with the greek Hagia Sophia & other mother goddess figures such as Isis & the pagan Ahprodite that were popular with women. But these were removed forcibly from the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures around 400 or 500 B.C. , as a way of differentiating themselves from the Caanatites who they competed & made war.)