11/22/2023 0 Comments Jehovah rules![]() ![]() There is considerable although not universal support for this view, but it raises the question of how Yahweh made his way to the north. The dominant view is therefore that Yahweh was a "divine warrior from the southern region associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman". The oldest plausible occurrence of his name is in the phrase ( Egyptian: tꜣ šꜣsw Yhwꜣ), "The Land of the Shasu YHWA," ( Egyptian: □□□□ Yhwꜣ) in an inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1390–1352 BCE), the Shasu being nomads from Midian and Edom in northern Arabia. One scholarly theory is that he originated in a shortened form of ˀel ḏū yahwī ṣabaˀôt, "El who creates the hosts", but this phrase is nowhere attested either inside or outside the Bible, and the two gods are in any case quite dissimilar, with El being elderly and paternal and lacking Yahweh's association with the storm and battles. His name is not attested other than among the Israelites, and there is no consensus on its etymology, ehyeh ašer ehyeh (" I Am that I Am"), the explanation presented in Exodus 3:14, appearing to be a late theological gloss invented at a time when the original meaning had been forgotten. There is almost no agreement on his origins. ( Book of Deuteronomy 33:26–28, AMP Amplified Bible) The fountain of Jacob alone and secluded, He drove out the enemy from before you, And said, 'Destroy!' The eternal God is your refuge and dwelling place, "There is none like the God of Jeshurun (Israel),Īnd through the skies in his majestic glory. In the earliest Biblical literature Yahweh is a storm god typical of ancient Near Eastern myths, marching out from a region to the south or south-east of Israel with the heavenly host of stars and planets that make up his army to do battle with the enemies of his people Israel: Late Bronze Age origins (1550–1200 BCE) Late Bronze Age statuette of a storm god from Phoenician Antaradus Other academic terms often used include First Temple period, from the construction of the Temple in 957 BCE to its destruction in 586 BCE, exilic for the period of the Exile from 586–539 BCE (identical with Neo-Babylonian above), post-Exilic for later periods and Second Temple period from the reconstruction of the Temple in 515 BCE until its destruction in 70 CE. Philip King and Lawrence Stager place the history of Yahweh into the following periods: Rabbinic sources suggest that, by the Second Temple period, the name of God was pronounced only once a year, by the high priest, on the Day of Atonement. The shortened forms " Yeho-", " Yahu-" and " Yo-" appear in personal names and in phrases such as " Hallelu jah!" The sacrality of the name, as well as the Commandment against " taking the name 'in vain'", led to increasingly strict prohibitions on speaking or writing the term. The god's name was written in paleo-Hebrew as □□□□ ( יהוה in block script), transliterated as YHWH modern scholarship has reached consensus to transcribe this as Yahweh. Yahweh is also invoked in Papyrus Amherst 63, and in Jewish or Jewish-influenced Greco-Egyptian magical texts from the 1st to 5th century CE. In Roman times, following the Siege of Jerusalem and destruction of its Temple, in 70 CE, the original pronunciation of the god's name was forgotten entirely. During the Second Temple period, speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as taboo, and Jews instead began to substitute other words, primarily adonai ( אֲדֹנָי, "my Lord"). Towards the end of the Babylonian captivity, the existence of other gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed the creator deity and sole divinity to be worshipped. In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated and El-linked epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone, and other gods and goddesses such as Baal and Asherah were absorbed into Yahwist religion. The early Israelites were polytheistic and worshipped Yahweh alongside a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal. ![]() ![]() In the oldest biblical literature he possesses attributes typically ascribed to weather and war deities, fructifying the land and leading the heavenly army against Israel's enemies. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age, if not somewhat earlier. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, scholars generally contend that Yahweh emerged as a "divine warrior" associated first with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, and later with Canaan. Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. ![]()
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