What is Reddit's opinion of Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel?

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If you're looking for archaeological information, I would recommend starting with "Did God Have a Wife?" by William G. Dever, an archaeologist specializing in the Syria-Palestine (ancient Israel) areas.

http://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

Also check out (just look at an Amazon preview of the book before you buy) "Did God Have a Wife?" by William G. Dever.

http://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

I found both books fascinating - & heavy with footnotes. I want to read the rest of both authors' books - it's just a question of finding the time...

Hm. Well, you know them better than we do. I thought the suggestion to talk about science was a very good one (since he's forbidden any conversations about religion).

You could always talk about the science of archaeology in the Near/Middle East... [evil grin!]

http://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

For shits and giggles here’s another

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

Look man. You are refusing to look at my sources

You can look at Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

Hm. Are the answers logical & accurate? Can the person show you the support for the Watchtower's assertions in the bible itself? Not just cherry-picked scriptures; do you also read the context?

Also, you might want to check out these books:

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949 With a free preview at that link.

https://www.amazon.com/Early-History-God-Biblical-Resource/dp/080283972X

Once you've read those books (and perhaps others by the same authors, as well as books by other degreed bible scholars), you might begin to realize how simplistic and limited the Watchtower's knowledge of the bible is.

The Watchtower Society aka Jehovah's Witnesses are in reality just a slightly different flavor of fundamentalist, literalist, apocalyptic American Christian movements. But (again) you won't see that, until you step back & start getting information from sources other than the Watchtower Society itself.

https://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/fundamentalists-us-no-way.html

> the original god of the Israelites was a local storm god, with a wife

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

OKAY!!

In that case...

Maybe this:

https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/its-not-me-its-you-children-of-christian-narcissists/

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/page/bible-contradictions

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/accounts.html

http://www.davnet.org/kevin/articles/flood2.html

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-in-everyday-life-9-strategies/512

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

I hope this stuff helps...

Oh, and also:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html

The Early History of God - Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel by Mark S. Smith. I'm also reading his The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts right now.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mark+s.+smith

I also liked Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever:

https://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

Meh. The more you learn about the bible, the more you'll realize it's only an Iron-Age group of myths & chauvinistic tales about a tiny nation that borrowed most of its theology from late Bronze-Age, polytheistic Canaanite culture.

Try these books - to start with:

http://www.amazon.com/Did-God-Have-Wife-Archaeology/dp/0802863949

http://www.amazon.com/The-Early-History-God-Biblical/dp/080283972X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_y