Brilliant Article by Damien F. Mackey The “Toledoths” of Genesis: www.catholicintl.com Page 3 of article: “As one discovers from reading Wiseman, tremendous instruction can be gained from studying the pattern of the Divine names used according to the context of each successive Toledoth history. ” www.catholicintl.com GOD OF THE UDDER: ANOTHER LOOK AT EL SHADDAI www.keithmassey.com The “breasted god” Stone suggests that Shaddai is derived from the similar word, shad, which the Bible translates, “breast.” “Victor P. Hamilton connects the word shad to the blessing of fertility and progeny in this verse (Gen. 49:25).[39] Stone connects the name, Shaddai with shad, and suggests that “Shaddai signifies one who nourishes, supplies and satisfies.” www.xenos.org The title “El” is a common name for god: “By the way, the connection of Jacob with El is sometimes asserted on the basis of Jacobís other name, ìIsrael,î where ìElî is the last part of the name. Again, ìElî is a title for god that is often used in other personal names in Israel (such as ìSamuelî) and in neighboring nations. So in the Ammonite collection of personal names more than 150 contain the name ìElî, but most would affirm that the chief god of Ammon was Milkom, and that ìElî was a title of Milkom. One must be very careful about drawing lots of conclusions from a word that can be a title for any god in the West Semitic world.” www.reasonablefaith.org Canaanite religion was unlike the faith of the Israelites: “As the …
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