Yahweh, origin of a desert God

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    • Miller II, Robert D.

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Yahweh, origin of a desert God

Robert D. Miller II

(Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, v. 284)

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, c2021

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Bibliography: p. [195]-242

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Description

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.

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  • NCID
    BC06752018
  • ISBN
    • 9783525540862
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engheb
  • Place of Publication
    Göttingen
  • Pages/Volumes
    253 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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