Prof. Juan Manuel Tebes is Professor at the Catholic University of Argentina, current Director of its Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History, and Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). He is Co-Editor of the Ancient Near East Monographs (Society of Biblical Literature) and former Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Antiguo Oriente. Tebes has participated in archaeological expeditions in Jordan, Israel, and Turkey, and has also been research fellow at many institutions. He has recently published, with Christian Frevel, the collection of papers The Desert Origins of God: Yahweh’s Emergence and Early History in the Southern Levant and Northern Arabia (special volume of Entangled Religions 12/2; Bochum: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2021).
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Esau, Jacob’s twin brother, is the ancestor of Edom, Israel’s southern neighbor. The Edomites worshiped the god Qos/Qaus, who emerged around the same time and place as YHWH in the Late Bronze Age, and who was very popular in Persian Period Yehud. And yet, unlike other foreign gods, the Bible never mentions the god Qos. Why?
Esau, Jacob’s twin brother, is the ancestor of Edom, Israel’s southern neighbor. The Edomites worshiped the god Qos/Qaus, who emerged around the same time and place as YHWH in the Late Bronze Age, and who was very popular in Persian Period Yehud. And yet, unlike other foreign gods, the Bible never mentions the god Qos. Why?
