The Hebrew Bible has long been understood as condemning foreign deities.
He traces the historical development of Israel\'s.
Smith demonstrates that the Biblical attitude toward other Deities is not uniformly negative, as is commonly supposed.
Looking closely both at relevant Biblical texts and at their cultural contexts, Mark S.
While many Biblical texts do condemn other deities, many other passages show how early Israelites sometimes accepted the reality of Deities worshiped by other peoples.
The Hebrew Bible has long been understood as condemning foreign deities