Word: mythologists
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Dates: during 1901-1901
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There are numerous traces of polytheism among the Hebrews in the Old Testament, particularly in Genesis and Joshua. The early history of the He brews is very little known, because, unlike other nations, they had no great mythologist to bring down the early facts of their history. There are, however, marks of mythology in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. In Joshua there are probable evidences of the worship of household and ancestral gods, and traces of polytheism are very strong there, at the least. It is not to be supposed that each clan or tribe had several gods...