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Read the Bible in English and deity mostly comes down to two words: God and Lord. The Hebrew underneath is far richer: El, Eloah, and Elohim (which can mean God or gods), a divine name that seems to have started out as a separate deity from El, and some creative insults for other nations' gods. In this "Watch Your Language," Dan McClellan walks Dan Beecher through the necromancer of Endor, the Shema's "your God," and why calling other gods "worthless" isn't the same as calling them fake. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:26 How the Bible Names God 3:14 El, the Basic Word 4:53 Eloah and Elohim 5:48 Elohim: God or Gods? 7:10 The Necromancer of Endor 9:15 Abraham's Wandering Gods 11:55 Elohim by the Numbers 13:36 The Shema and "Your God" 14:49 Deuteronomy's Other Gods 16:09 Capital G or Lowercase? 18:15 The Tetragrammaton 19:34 When Two Gods Became One 22:12 Jehovah and the Letter J 25:26 Trash-Talking Other Gods 26:24 Gillulim: Dung Gods 28:11 Elilim: Worthless Things 28:37 An Enlil Pun? 30:16 Trash Talk, Not Denial 31:01 More Names Next Time _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Elohim #Monotheism #HebrewBible