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Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God

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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.

About the author

Robert D. Miller II is Ordinary Professor of Old Testament and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Catholig University of America.

Summary

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.

Foreword

The purpose of this study is to find those origins, to locate the earliest Yahwists, to explain the process by which Yahweh became the God of the Israelite people.

Product details

Authors Robert D Miller II, Robert D. Miller II
Assisted by Christopher Irwin (Illustration)
Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 08.03.2021
 
EAN 9783525540862
ISBN 978-3-525-54086-2
No. of pages 253
Dimensions 155 mm x 2 mm x 230 mm
Weight 570 g
Illustrations with 2 fig.
Series Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology

Altes Testament, Jahwe, Religion, Religionsphilosophie, auseinandersetzen, CPI, Wüstengott

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