Reddit reviews A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood
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If you want a good 10,000-foot view of it all the way to modern Judaism I would recommend one of these if you are interested in learning more:
by Michael Satlow
Satlow also has a good podcast called "From Israelite to Jew" you can listen to for a decent, and brief overview, his book is really the follow-up to that.
>It depends if you count the transition from El to Yahweh as two separate gods.
This makes no sense. These names are interchanged throughout the Torah to represent different attributes of God and his functions. Why did you leave out Elokim and Shakkai as well?
As well, these accusations of polytheism have been thoroughly debunked within the last century by Umberto Cassuto.
>Israel was just one of the tribes of the Canaanites and eventually chose one of their own Canaanite polytheistic gods to be their primary tribal god. Ancient anthropology helps put a lot of the OT into context.
Again, this is very skewed and wrong. This book does not support anything you're saying in what I'm quoting above and this is one of the readers we were instructed to use at my very liberal, anti religious University.
None of your attempt at this anthropological history ever came up because it's just nonsense. People attempt, from multiple angles, to undermine Jewish history with a number of theories, but most of them get dismissed and don't hold up to scrutiny. The attempt to say that HaShem is really these other Gods reworded, or in some pantheon of Gods is just silly.
This is a decent one.