Idolatry: How Some Object or Text Discovered Term Paper

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idolatry: How some object or text discovered by archeologists, or some other type of cultural or literary parallel, enhances our understanding of something in Exodus

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Idolatry in the ancient Near East -- a non-Exodus Perspective

Over the course of the past several decades in modernity, numerous objects as well as the actual substances of texts discovered by archaeologists, have contributed to the modern understanding of the characterization of so-called 'idol worship' in Exodus as well as other Hebrew texts, texts that have come to have been canonized as 'The Hebrew Bible," as referred to by members of the Jewish religion, or 'The Old Testament,' as such books are frequently referred to by members of the Christian faith.

Up until this point in time, the way that ancient Israelites perceived idol worship held dominance how the people who worshipped idols saw idol worship. However, the Bible frequently mischaracterizes these other people's rationale for worshipping idols on purpose. One must always remember that the Bible is a historical argument and a collection of cultural mythology for a particular view of the divine, a nation, and a people, at a historical point in time, and attempt to understand, from the point-of-view and examples of people in other civilizations, who valued the ability of idols to make contributions to their religious experiences.

This paper will give particular importance to the role materials in idolatry and how idolaters can view materials as being capable of containing something that is divine.

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The materials themselves, it must be stressed, were viewed, much like the human flesh and human condition in general, as corruptible. However, how idolaters through ritual, such as mouth-opening ceremonies and other ceremonies were used to bring divine spirits into an idol, making the divine manifest in the physical -- a belief phenomenon with cross-cultural significance and presence, it should be noted.

Through the use of argument and example, this paper will demonstrate that the so-called idolaters of the ancient world did not believe that if the idol was destroyed, the God was destroyed or that a god could only be housed in one idol, despite attempts to portray idolatrous views in such a fashion. Idolaters became characterized as such, however, because of the ancient Israelites moving from certain types of worship and their adaptation to temple-era Judaism. This paper does not mean to function as a condemnation of the Biblical view, merely a statement why such views exist and may not represent the reality of the ancient world. The silenced views of history, or history's ideological 'loser' need to be heard, in comparison to the now predominant the ancient Israelite's evolving viewpoint on the issue.

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