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The God on the Winged Wheel coin, minted in Gaza City, southern Philistia, during the Persian period of the 4th century BCE. It possibly represents Yahweh enthroned on a winged wheel, although this identification is disputed among scholars. Deities of the ancient Near East Ancient Egyptian Amun Anubis Apis Atum Buchis Geb Horus Isis Montu Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Qetesh Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth ...
The supreme god was Yahweh, whose name appears as an element on personal seals from the late 9th to the 6th centuries BCE. [33] Alongside Yahweh was his consort Asherah, [ 34 ] (replaced by the goddess "Anat-Yahu" in the temple of the 5th century Jewish settlement Elephantine in Egypt), [ 35 ] and various biblical passages indicate that statues ...
God's names in Jewish thought and in the light of Kabbalah; The Name of God as Revealed in Exodus 3:14—an explanation of its meaning. Bibliography on Divine Names in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish Encyclopedia: Names of God "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" – Song and Video of Ancient Yemenite Prayer From the Diwan
The name of the national god of the kingdoms of Israel (Samaria) and Judah is written in the Hebrew Bible as יהוה (), which modern scholars often render as Yahweh. [6] The short form Jah/Yah, appears in Exodus 15:2 and 17:16, Psalm 89:9, (arguably, by emendation) [citation needed] Song of Songs 8:6, [4] as well as in the phrase Hallelujah.
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh. [16]Judaism, the oldest Abrahamic religion, is based on a strict, exclusive monotheism, [4] [17] finding its origins in the sole veneration of Yahweh, [4] [18] [19] [20] the predecessor to the Abrahamic conception of God.
"Jehovah" at Exodus 6:3 [1] (King James Version). Jehovah (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ h oʊ v ə /) is a Latinization of the Hebrew יְהֹוָה Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament.
The general interpretation is the former; that Jethro, a non-Jew, recognized the true God in Yahweh, the God of Israel, and paid him homage. Proponents of the Kenite hypothesis, on the other hand, interpret the passage as the latter; that Jethro expresses to his proud joy that the God he and his people already worshipped, Yahweh, has proved ...
This category is for articles about Yahweh and the historical worship of Yahweh. For the proposed biblical source, see Jahwist. Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity that became the national god of ancient Israel and Judah. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age if not somewhat earlier,.