Dear Francesca Stavrakopoulou,
I'm writing to you in the hopes you can take a look at something, that I've been discussing for years online with a professor of Kabbalah called The Seventh Beggar, and his friend with a masters in Talmudic studies called Olam Chesed Yibaneh; yet they claim they're not knowledgable enough on the subject, so to write to you, as you're one of the only people they can think of who might be able to assess the case properly.
I did try writing to you last year on July 30th, about your interview on your book "God: An Anatomy"; yet didn't receive a reply, so thought to try again, as they keep insisting, only someone like yourself will be able to assess some of what I'm saying.
Basically I believe that since Babylon the Hebraic theology got muddled, due to the similarities in language & theology; yet whereas the Babylonians had a polytheistic structuring, continued from the Canaanites, the Bible has the same theology as the Dharmic structuring, and has been misunderstood since then.
Some of the miscomprehensions that I believe have taken place, is that El (H410) and Eloh (H433) have been confused since Babylon.
Where in Isaiah 46:9, when it states 'El is not like the Elohim', it uses the same language found in Deuteronomy 32:7-9 of 'going back to the former theology'; that 'El Elyon (God Most High) separated the nations among the Divine Council, and gave the nation of Israel to YHVH'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elyon#%CA%BDEly%C5%8Dn_standing_aloneBecause the religious leaders after Babylon tried to remove any of the polytheistic ideas, they also changed the Hebraic religion into a form of henotheism, rather than monotheism - where they turned the Creator Divine Being (YHVH Eloh) into God Almighty, when there is a clear difference theologically in many of the world's religious ideas.
The theological structuring is that El applies to the Source of reality, & Elim refers to primordial deities, and then there is Eloh/Elohim referring to Divine Beings, that are physically manifest in some way, with a specific character i.e Avatars.
It is easier to understand the interaction of YHVH Eloh and El Elyon, that the Source of reality is beyond any physicality, and for God to interact with reality, it has to make a being to interact with the reality; so YHVH is seen as the Arm of the Lord scripturally, and the God Most High is the Source of reality - therefore they are not different beings as the Babylonians believed, yet are different aspects of the one God making everything.
This is the same in the Dharmic theological structuring, where Brahman is the Source of reality, and Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Refresher - who are different aspects of the one God creating everything.
Based on the language YHVH is a Hebrew translation of the Sanskrit, 'Bhagavan Brahma'; where 'Havah' and 'Brahma' both come from the root 'breath', and mean 'to be', 'to make manifest' i.e the 'Lord of Creation'.
Where it compares in Psalms 89:8, who is a strong Yah (Lord) like YHVH (Lord of Creation), showing that Yah can not be a shortened version of the name, as assumed since Babylon.
I understand that the additional 'H' added to the word El, means something breathed into existence by the Source. Where when Abram had his name changed to Abraham, and Sara to Sarah - the added H, is the breath of God breathed into them. As we see in words like Havah, Hayah, Habah, it is that something is breathed into existence.
We can show in the Biblical texts prior to Babylon, that they had clear references to a different theological structuring, and we can show other religious cultures trying to correct the same mistakes.
Where in the Psalms we can see it declares both YHVH, 'and' El Elyon in these verses:
2 Samuel 22:14 & Psalms 18:13, Psalms 21:7, Psalms 50:14, Psalms 78:35, Psalms 92:1
Within Job we can see it declares a Divine Being (Eloh - H433), 'and' the Almighty in these verses:
Job 5:17, Job 6:4, Job 11:7, Job 22:26, Job 27:10, Job 31:2, Job 40:2
In many theological structures globally there is the Source of reality, and then the Divine Beings/Avatars/Archangels who've interacted with the reality.
When we study many of the meanings of these names of Divine Beings, across the world's religious ideas, we can find that most are descriptors of their attributes, and not necessarily names.
We can understand that after Babylon, due to them seeing them practising idolatry, they then tried to make their own concepts specifically not idolatrous, and so removed concepts of the Divine Council from their belief, and applied that they only had one Divine Being (YHVH), which they've then made into the God Most High.
The book of Revelation also tried to fix the theology, where there is God Almighty (El Shaddai) as the one on the throne, and then the 24 Elders are Elohim, plus the Lamb as the king of kings, Lord of Lords (25th).
The idea that man was made in the image of God brakes the 2nd commandment; whereas if man was made the same as the Divine Beings (Elohim), then this doesn't defile the 2nd commandment. The Source of reality is beyond form, and exists as panentheism; whereas the Divine Council are pantheistic.
This same theological error was what the Quran was trying to fix, that they should only worship the God Most High; where Ala Ilah is Arabic for the God Most High, and I believe that is where the terminology Allah came from.
The Quran was trying to address, that rather than worship the Lords (which were the 'Sons of God' in ancient Middle Eastern theology), instead they should only worship the Source of reality, as everything comes from that (12:39-40).
The Quran makes clear that, 'Never has the God Most High (Allah) interacted with reality directly, it has always been by Messengers' (42:51).
I feel if we could fix some of these religious differences, it might actually heal some of the problems in the Middle Eastern issues; as at a root level, they're going to keep fighting until it gets resolved.