Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Ancient Israel religion

This book certainly gave me much to think about.What I did not like is the layout of the book, I am a fairly fast reader and dislike footnotes. It disrupts my reading particularly when these footnotes are references to books and articles. I much prefer them in the back out of the way.However the contents are interesting. What the author does is discuss several issues on God and his practice in ancient Israel and discusses some of the evidence. I particularly found the discussion of Yahweh and Asherah fascinating.A tip for any reader for this book is read the introduction and then the conclusion at the end of each chapter first. Then absorb it. Then read the chapter. Otherwise you may like me get confused about the discussion in the chapter.