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Psalm 82 opens with God standing in an assembly of other gods.
Not angels. Not metaphor. The Hebrew word is "elohim", the same word used for God himself.
Most Bibles translate around this. The text doesn't. 🧵
This isn't fringe scholarship. It's mainstream Hebrew Bible academia, just rarely discussed outside seminary walls.
The divine council reshapes how you read the entire Old Testament's opening chapters.
Ancient inscriptions reference "Yahweh and his Asherah."
Archaeology suggests early Israelite religion may not have been strictly monotheistic — at least, not at first.