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...Jehovah, the God of Moses, was not the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook to exterminate the Canaanites among whom Abraham, worshipping El, had spent his life in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself. ... He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Hundred Years' War | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...must an omnipotent God be cajoled by prayer?" someone else shouted. "Prayer is the duty owed by creature to Creator," came the answer. The priests had to stand up and answer atheistic, Mohammedan, Presbyterian, and Jehovah's Witness heckling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heckled Priests | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Jehovah's witnesses maintain that persecution has been directed against them by the Catholic Hierarchy. "The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, operating what they call 'Catholic Action', are carrying out a well-laid scheme to destroy everything in these world that publishes the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Canvassed By Jehovah's Witnesses | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

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