Friday, August 8, 2014

Elohim does *NOT* mean "Judges"

Daniel McClellan has a number of excellent blog posts and papers on Psalm 82 and other issues on his blog, so I highly recommend one spend a few hours on it just for that reason. Dan has a very useful paper, “Elohim does not mean ‘judges’” which one should read carefully. While not a paper with an LDS focus, LDS apologists and scholars have encountered many critics, typically within Evangelical Protestantism, who argue that the Elohim in texts such as Psa 82 are human judges; Dan’s paper puts the lie to this claim.

Other recommend readings:
Blake T. Ostler, Of God and Gods (SLC: Greg Kofford Books, 2008)


Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)