Yahweh : : origin of a desert God / / Robert D. Miller.

• Superior document: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; v.284
• VerfasserIn: Miller, Robert D., II,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)

"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." --Provided by publisher

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Southern Origins of Yahweh in the Bible -- The Meaning of the Tetragrammaton -- The Midianite (Kenite) Hypothesis -- Yahweh Comes from the South -- Chapter 2: Evidence from Kuntillet ʿAjrud -- Yahweh of Teman at Kuntillet Ajrud -- Kenites at Kuntillet Ajrud -- Chapter 3: Other Extrabiblical Yahwehs -- Papyrus Amherst 63 -- Yahweh in Sinai -- Yahweh in 8th-century Syria -- Yahweh in Sealand -- Yahweh the Baboon? -- Chapter 4: The Shasu Yahweh -- The Sutu -- Postscript -- Chapter 5: Edomite Religion -- Chapter 6: Midianite Religion -- Chapter 7: Yahweh and the Smiths -- Metallurgy in the Southern Levant -- The Anthropology of Metallurgy -- The Ṣleb -- The Introduction of Yahweh -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- General Index.