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...church should not despair at the prospect of having to find new ways of speaking about God, Cox says. After all, God revealed himself to Israel at different times under different names-as El Shaddai (the Almighty) to Abraham, and as Yahweh to Moses. "Rather than clinging stubbornly to antiquated appellations or anxiously synthesizing new ones," says Cox, "we must simply take up the work of liberating the captives, confident that we will be granted a new name by events of the future...
...Altar for el-Shaddai. Author Hill draws on imagination to describe the vale of Shittim, location of the wicked cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, though with benefit of modern geological research. "A pall of thin, grey haze hovered ominously over the valley and the smell of sulphur filled the air. There were places . . . where naphtha oozed from the ground, slimy and flammable. There was also asphalt (bitumen) for the gathering . . . Petroleum gases and light fumes of sulphur often hung on the air above the plain . . ." Through Canaan ran an enormous geological fault, and a shift in this...
...rocks, the sanctity of caves, the bounty of water holes, or to the protection of river and sun, to find their manifestations of God, more and more often Abraham found himself . . . lifting his eyes to the mountains and his heart to him whom the Canaanites often called el-Shaddai, 'the Mountain...
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