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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 ...
Also abbreviated Jah, the most common name of God in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton, יהוה, which is usually transliterated as YHWH. The Hebrew script is an abjad, and thus vowels are often omitted in writing. YHWH is usually expanded to Yahweh in English. [11] Modern Rabbinical Jewish culture judges it forbidden to pronounce this name.
His work on the origins of Yahwism was controversially received, describing the god's proposed origin as the Canaanite god of metallurgy. [3] [4] He has written on the origins of biblical archeology locations such as Edom, [5] [6] and analyses of the Psalms. [7] His work on Yahweh and the Origins of Judaism has been cited by Daniel E. Fleming ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
A poetic refrain in Judges in the Hebrew Bible states that Yahweh embarked from Se'ir in the region of Edom. [6] [19] Recently, the view has been advanced that Yahweh was originally a Kenite god whose cult spread north of Midian to the Israelites. [20] According to this approach, Qōs might possibly have been a title for Yahweh, rather than a ...
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.