Abstract
Though ‘religion in ancient Israel’ evokes thoughts of a temple, priests, and animal sacrifice, this chapter will show that this trifecta represents just a small range of the features that constituted religion in ancient Israel. Rather, the chapter explains the importance of the larger context of the ancient Near East in which Israel lived and from which it borrowed a great deal of ideas and practices. Evidence shows there was a variety of religious thought and practice in ancient Israel. This is true, in part, because Israel’s religion develops in response to the changing political, social, and economic contexts of the first half of the first millennium BCE.
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