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

"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 a...

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Superior document:Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; v.284
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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)
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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.