The Pelle Migdol Temple---Evidence of Monotheism, & Quran-Biblical history, Pre-Egypt

[RetiredEgo]

http://astarte.com.au/html/pella_s_c...te_temple.html
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Culture/Monotheism.html






Moreover, the "local religious history" in the Migdol Temple just so happens to have occurred at the same time * and in the same region * as the founding of religious monotheism recorded in the Old Testament. The Migdol Temple was in use during the arrival of the Israelites and the establishment of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah * an event that marked the foundation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is in this respect that the excavations have had another bit of exciting * and somewhat shocking * religious history to reveal.

During the approximately 800 years of its occupation, those who used the Migdol Temple slowly changed their Bronze Age polytheistic beliefs into Iron Age "henotheistic" beliefs, a period during which officials allowed communities to believe in more than one god, but encouraged them to concentrate their veneration on one god over all others.

Known as "state monotheism," the most famous example of this change in belief is that of Yahweh in Israel. But according to Bourke, archaeological evidence is revealing that this new emphasis on one god was not reserved for the Israelites, but occurred simultaneously in several nation states throughout the Middle East, with Yahweh in Israel, Hadad in Damascus, Milkom in Amman, Chemos in Moab (in present-day Jordan) and Qos in Edom (in present-day Israel).

{Yaweh= YaHuwa= Oh He!, Gods prime reference in Judeo-Arabic}

"The Migdol Pella Temple evidence suggests that the pathway to national consciousness occurs in many different centers at around the same time in effectively the same way," said Bourke.


{What Onyiboy only sees as plagiarism}

"No other site can study history in such depth," Burke concludes. "That's why Pella matters."

[Onyiiboy]

Here's a part that should be bolded:


"During the approximately 800 years of its occupation, those who used the Migdol Temple slowly changed their Bronze Age polytheistic beliefs into Iron Age "henotheistic" beliefs, a period during which officials allowed communities to believe in more than one god, but encouraged them to concentrate their veneration on one god over all others."

All of these "nation states" had their own particular God, but they still believed in other ones. The Jews did not become monotheists until later on in thier history.

Originally Posted by RetiredEgo

"The Migdol Pella Temple evidence suggests that the pathway to national consciousness occurs in many different centers at around the same time in effectively the same way," said Bourke.


{What Onyiboy only sees as plagiarism}

Having similar concepts is not plagerism, (unless you claim to be the sole originator of it), however, the borrowing stories (like the Romans did to the Greeks) is in fact plagerism.