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Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God

By Robert D Miller II

Book information

Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Year
2021
ISBN
9783525540862, 9783647540863
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2229370 bytes)
Pages
252\252
Time added
2022-05-15 18:39:35
Yahwism

Description

Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other than the Israelite people. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible, with an exhaustive survey of ancient Near Eastern literature and inscriptions discovered by archaeology, and using anthropology to reconstruct religious practices and beliefs of ancient Edom and Midian, this study proposes an answer. Yahweh-worshiping Midianites of the Early Iron Age brought their deity along with metallurgy into ancient Palestine and the Israelite people.

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