God: An Anatomy is a great book that goes more into this if you want to read more about the ancient conception of the Abrahamic god. Very little of it has survived into Christianity.
A tablet written in the very early Bronze Age, when Semites were surrounded by (and often participating in) all sorts of alternative cults and pagan pantheons would naturally mention other gods.
It would be weirder if the early biblical texts didn’t mention any other gods.
Start from the beginning. The text makes it absolutely clear that there “are other gods”.
God: An Anatomy is a great book that goes more into this if you want to read more about the ancient conception of the Abrahamic god. Very little of it has survived into Christianity.
A tablet written in the very early Bronze Age, when Semites were surrounded by (and often participating in) all sorts of alternative cults and pagan pantheons would naturally mention other gods.
It would be weirder if the early biblical texts didn’t mention any other gods.
It wasn’t just other cultural groups that had other gods – proto-Judaism was polytheistic.
Considering 3 major world religions claim the text was inspired by their god, the discrepancies make it at least highly suspicious.