May I speculate irresponsibly? Could the argument of the poem be that now, after serious and horrible disturbances, all national gods are back in their proper place but that Yahweh has performed such an exceptional task both in reconciling formerly apostate worshippers and in inflicting vengeance on their enemies that all other gods must celebrate and defer to him? This would make him the supreme ruler for practical purposes, Elyon having no more to do. The role of assigning lesser deities to different nations has passed to Yahoo in Deuteronomy 4.
The idea of ‘every god in his place’ seems to share the ideological of the Cyrus Cylinder. The idea of the supreme God being above and beyond everything and being represented in the universe by a more involved and active force looks forward to the ideology of Timaeus.
May I speculate irresponsibly? Could the argument of the poem be that now, after serious and horrible disturbances, all national gods are back in their proper place but that Yahweh has performed such an exceptional task both in reconciling formerly apostate worshippers and in inflicting vengeance on their enemies that all other gods must celebrate and defer to him? This would make him the supreme ruler for practical purposes, Elyon having no more to do. The role of assigning lesser deities to different nations has passed to Yahoo in Deuteronomy 4.
The idea of ‘every god in his place’ seems to share the ideological of the Cyrus Cylinder. The idea of the supreme God being above and beyond everything and being represented in the universe by a more involved and active force looks forward to the ideology of Timaeus.