are enemies of the "positive deities." We can also see in the Theogony of Hesiod, for example (until it sits Zeus). In Ugaritic civilization, which share territory with the Jews, have four cosmic enemies that both peoples share (including name): Mar, Leviathan, Tannin and Mawet.
These enemies are enemies of the chief god of the people, against those who have to fight. These cosmic forces end up being dominated by the god of the people.
DIFFERENCES:
In other word these enemies are gods in the Old Testament are not gods, are divine figures.
Those enemies are no longer the threat potential they have in other traditions, and offer no resistance, they are not dangerous.
In Genesis not only ignores the conflict between the chief god and these "enemies" but appear under the creator god, and therefore are characterized as "good" (the cosmic waters, for example). Monotheistic vision radically changes the relationship of the chief god and these cosmic enemies.
In Genesis God creates through the word, not have to go fight with other gods to establish order. His power is so great that by the word create, and to create said his goodness (and God saw that it was fine).
Platonists speak of this idea of \u200b\u200bproperty, goodness. The earlier gods were not good, caring of the people, period. This idea Platonic influence on this new way of seeing God. But then comes the problem of evil, if God created the world and it's good Why is there evil? The Greeks did not have this problem, the problem is a monotheistic vision whose God is the "kindness."
disappear all the gods that are not unique and that God created things will become for him. Road disappears between God and creatures created by him. Another problem would be then that God is known, but unknown, the Greek gods had human form, it no longer exists, there is a distance and God is the great unknown. A vision strictly monotheistic create great dissatisfaction, then so will the saints or the Blessed Trinity, which act as mediators.
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