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Updated: May 26, 2025

In the case under consideration the god may have become the hero of a ceremony with which he had originally nothing to do, as the Hebrews when they entered Canaan connected Canaanite festivals with their national god, Yahweh, and later a cult of the wilderness deity Azazel was adopted and modified by the Yahwist leaders.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

The Gnostic sects, Ophites and Cainites, looked on the serpent and Cain as friends of the supreme Deity and of man; they were enemies only of the Demiourgos, the Jewish god Yahweh, who, they held, wished to keep man in ignorance. +694+. Thus, it cannot be said that a demon has ever developed into a god.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

The whole story of the intimate relations of Yahweh to his people and to their ancestors is through and through mythological. Milton's epic was made possible by the folklore incorporated in the Bible. There are many traces in the Bible of a common Semitic tradition in spite of the reactions which it underwent.

Roy Wood Sellars - The Next Step in Religion: An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance

It was all in order for Yahweh, the guardian spirit of the Hebrew race, to "hetchel" the Jews and from all accounts they needed it but the most anomalous phase of this whole affair consists in the fact that after having set forth to the world that the church, and all were to come under the rule of the "new dispensation," and represent the teachings of the Master, they should turn back to the old, old history of the Jews, and incorporate bodily into the so-called Christian religion, and into the political life and jurisprudence of nations, the restrictions, the penalties, and, in a word, the Hebraic law in its entirety.

Ammyeetis - Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul

In the earlier legal documents it is merely a restrictive period man and beast are to rest from toil; in later codes religious motives for the observance of the day are introduced first, gratitude to Yahweh for the rescue of the nation from Egyptian bondage, and then respect for the fact that Yahweh worked in creating the world six days and stopped work on the seventh day.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV