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Yahweh before Israel - Glimpses of History in a Divine Name (Hardcover)
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Yahweh before Israel - Glimpses of History in a Divine Name (Hardcover)
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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.
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