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How about the evolution of Yahweh/Allah as a second-tier God in a large henotheistic polytheism into a straight monotheism where there is only one God, where that God is Yahweh/Allah?
Here are some references on the growth of monotheistic Yahwehism from a historical polytheistic foundation to the development of the henotheism/monolatry, and then monotheism of early Biblical Israelites:
While limited to starting with the Hebrew Bible as a basis, and not addressing much pre-Torah scripture related to Yahweh, the following takes a look at:
While a College Senior Thesis (and the perception therefore of a less credible scholarly/appeal to authority level), the following is a good source of other reference material:
Some of the on-line summaries/arguments which related to the above argument/position are:
A recent discussion in /r/AcademicBiblical, Was Yaweh originally a member of a pre-Judaic pantheon of gods?, by /u/koine_lingua, also addresses the origin of YHWH.
Some potential additional references (which are on my "To Read" list)....
Sure, so apart from a lack of reason to accept those extraordinary claims I listed before, I would also defend the statement that we have firm evidence that Christianity is a human invention, a simple product of human culture.
This should not be too outlandish a claim, as even Christians can probably agree that most of the worlds religions are creations of our changing society (after all, Christians probably would disagree that Hinduism, paganism, Nordic, Hellenistic, aboriginal religions were divinely inspired/authored).
By looking back into the origins of Christianity, and the origins of the Judaic system from which it is derived, we can very clearly see changes in religious deities and stories, as the religion began incorporating myths from surrounding areas and as general patterns of beliefs changed. From what we can currently understand, it appears the the origin of Christianity started as a polytheistic pantheon with at least Yahweh, El, Baal and Asherah. It then moved slowly from polytheism to henotheism to monaltry to monotheism, as was relatively common in the Axial Age.
All of this points to the religion not representative of singular divine inspiration, and instead being representative of being a product of human culture, changing along with society.
This is a rather large topic of course, and if you want further reading, I recommend:
Smith all day every day. Also check out God in Translation.
Finkelstein and Silberman is still a very good read, but could be updated with 15 more years of archaeological finds!
I never got around to reading it but I would check out "God in translation" by Mark Smith.
here's the amazon page.
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There are multiple gods in the bible. You might want to read Mark S. Smith's books:
https://www.amazon.com/Early-History-God-Biblical-Resource/dp/080283972X
I haven't gotten to read this one yet, but it looks interesting:
https://www.amazon.com/God-Translation-Cross-Cultural-Discourse-Biblical/dp/0802864333
Might also check this one out:
https://www.amazon.com/Bodies-God-World-Ancient-Israel/dp/1107422264
I know you asked for one book but if you're interested in some of the dialog on the topic Smith's more recent work God in Translation: Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World is less of a primer and more of a response to Assmann (author of "Of God and Gods" which another commenter mentioned) and modern issues of tolerance and religious violence. Smith disagrees with Assmann in Assmann's view of God's "nontranslatability".