Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God

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.

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: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 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 > Miscellaneous; Altes Testament, Jahwe, Religion, Religionsphilosophie, Wüstengott