In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, sizes up former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump as follows: “the lavishness of his ...

The further back we go in history the more glaringly evident it is that humanity at its most primal stage of development had a proclivity for a plurality of gods and goddesses. Africans, long regarded ...

Akhenaten shattered centuries of Egyptian tradition by abandoning its many gods for Aten, the sun disk. His radical faith still sparks debate—was it the world’s first monotheism? Map shows major ...

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Archaeological discoveries have revealed inscriptions referencing “YHWH and his Asherah,” raising major questions about early Israelite religion. Some scholars argue this suggests that certain ...