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The notion that Yahweh is to be worshipped as the creator-god of all the earth is first elaborated by the Second Isaiah, a 6th-century BCE exilic work whose case for the theological doctrine rests on Yahweh's power over other gods, [91] [needs update] and his incomparability and singleness relative to the gods of the Babylonian religion.
The exact date of his first appearance is also ambiguous: the term Israel first enters historical records in the 13th century BCE with the Egyptian Merneptah Stele, and, while the worship of Yahweh is circumstantially attested to as early as the 12th century BCE, [18] there is no attestation of even the name "Yahweh" in the Levant until some ...
The major deities were not numerous – El, Asherah, and Yahweh, with Baal as a fourth god, and perhaps Shamash (the sun) in the early period. [100] At an early stage El and Yahweh became fused and Asherah did not continue as a separate state cult, [100] although she continued to be popular at a community level until Persian times. [101]
Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...
This is a timeline of the development of prophecy among the Jews in Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era , not the Hebrew calendar . See also Jewish history which includes links to individual country histories.
2900 BC: The second phase of Stonehenge was completed and appeared to function as the first enclosed cremation cemetery in the British Isles. 2635 BC – 2610 BC: The oldest surviving Egyptian pyramid was commissioned by Pharaoh Djoser. [18] 2600 BC: Stonehenge began to take on its final form. The wooden posts were replaced with bluestone.
Since the chart combines secular history with biblical genealogy, it worked back from the time of Christ to peg their start at 4,004 B.C. Above the image of Adam and Eve are the words, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" (Genesis 1:1) — beside which the author acknowledges that — "Moses assigns no date to this Creation.
Image on a pithos sherd found at Kuntillet Ajrud with the inscription "Yahweh and his Asherah". Judaism has three essential and related elements: study of the written Torah; the recognition of Israel as the chosen people and the recipients of the law at Mount Sinai; and the requirement that Israel and their descendants live according to the laws outlined in the Torah. [17]