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Yahweh Before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name

By Daniel E Fleming

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
1108835074, 9781108835077
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7761751 bytes)
Pages
300\340
Time added
2021-05-19 03:52:51

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Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long before Israel, the name is found in an Egyptian list as one group in the land of tent-dwellers, the Shasu. This is the starting-point for Daniel E. Fleming's sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. In his analysis, the Bible's 'people of Yahweh' serve as a clue to how one of the Bronze Age herding peoples of the inland Levant gave its name to a deity, initially outside of any relationship to Israel. For 150 years, the dominant paradigm for Yahweh's origin has envisioned borrowing from peoples of the desert south of Israel. Fleming argues in contrast that Yahweh was not taken from outsiders. Rather, this divine name is evidence for the diverse background of Israel itself. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction The Search for Yahweh's Origins The Midianite Hypothesis Rebuilding from Old Materials 2 Yhw of Shasu-Land The Shasu-Land: Yhw in Two Lists The Shasu Soleb 'Amarah West The Shasu-Land: One Contact in Two Texts Shasu Families A Landscape from Amenhotep III Ramses II and Seir: Reinterpretation of the Shasu The Shasu in the 15th and 14th Centuries The Shasu's Yhw without Seir 3 The Midianite Hypothesis: Moses and the Priest Before Shasu and Old Poetry Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany (Richard von der Alm, 1807-1876) Cornelis Petrus Tiele (1830-1902) After Tiele Bernhard Stade (1848-1906) Karl Budde (1850-1935) Eduard Meyer (1855-1930) and Hugo Gressmann (1877-1927) H. H. Rowley (1890-1969) The Prose Biblical Texts The Contemporary Midianite Hypothesis and Moses Yahweh: The Unknown Name Exodus 6 Exodus 3 Midianites and Kenites Israel's Southern Kin 4 The Old Poetry Early Hebrew Poetry Judges 5:4-5 and Psalm 68:8-9 Revised Introduction in Judg 5:2-11 Yahweh from the South Deuteronomy 33:2 Deuteronomy 33 and Genesis 49 Deuteronomy 33 and Greater Israel Habakkuk 3: Adding Teman Teman and Kuntillet 'Ajrud Yahweh's March at Kuntillet 'Ajrud Yahweh's Distant Home Yahweh in the Old Poetry 5 The Name Yahweh Yahweh as a Verb Personal Names and Peoples Shortened Personal Names and Names for Peoples Yahwi- in Amorite Personal Names The Personal Name without Divine Concern 6 The People of Yahweh Yahweh in the Mesha Inscription The People of Yahweh The Ten 'am Yhwh Texts The People of Yahweh Apart from Israel: Judges 5:13 ''Your People, Yahweh'': Exodus 15:16 The Song of the Sea and Jerusalem The Song of the Sea and History The People Defined by Yahweh and Yahweh Defined by a People Yahweh the God and Yhw the People 7 The Early Character of the God Yahweh In Search of Analogy The Great Gods of Mesopotamia South Arabia and Moab Great Gods and Divine Character Yahweh, El, and Israel The Name Israel Shechem The ''Bull Site'' and Mount Ebal Shiloh Jerusalem Yahweh before Omri Yahweh the Young Polytheism without Pantheon Yahweh before, and alongside, Israel Bibliography Ancient Near East Index Scripture Index Subject Index

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