Rereading Genesis 18 and 19

This is an intentional phrasing of a text in order to fully communicate the fact that in the story concerning the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah there was another Yahweh, distinct from Yahweh seated in heaven, who called down fire and effectively destroyed the sinful nation.

What this has to do with our “theology” is enormous. It makes us rethink our deeply held assumptions about Jewish monotheism, especially the kind of monotheism observed in the first century A.D. We assume that Jews during the days of Christ and the apostles also knew about texts like this, laying down the conceptual framework of subsequent Jesus-worship.

Rereading Genesis 18 and 19