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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spike Y Jones" data-source="post: 920502" data-attributes="member: 5108">Jewish PantheonIt depends on what you mean by "Jewish pantheon." As Chris Pramas has pointed out, there will be plenty of info on Israelite culture and religious practices of the time period: what the holidays were, when you made pilgrimages to the Temple, what was sacreligious and what wasn't. If that's what you mean, then it's there.If you mean a set of gods that the Israelites worshipped, well, there's YHWH. Individual Israelites may also have picked gods and goddesses from the pantheons of neighbouring cultures to workship too (e.g., Asherah from the Caananite pantheon; see the preview), but the Temple orthodoxy tended to frown on that, so there's no equivalent chart in the Israelite Religion chapter listing all the possible gods an Israelite might pick up to sin with.And as for the theory that monotheism was a late development in Biblical history and that the early Israelites worshipped Asherah alongside YHWH without any complaint from the priests, the prophets, or the Lord, while that's a supportable position (and I happen to believe it personally, outside of my position as editor), it's not something that was made an explicit part of the Testament text.Or were you looking for some other information?Spike Y Jones, editor, Testament</blockquote>