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The Origins of Yahwism
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The Origins of Yahwism
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This compendium examines the origins of the God Yahweh, his place in the Syrian-Palestinian and Northern Arabian pantheon during the bronze and iron ages, and the beginnings of the cultic veneration of Yahweh. Contributors analyze the epigraphic and archeological evidence, apply fundamental considerations from the cultural and religious sciences, and analyze the relevant Old Testament texts.
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Index of Ancient Sources
HEBREW BIBLE
Genesis
- 11, 2
- 1:11
- 1:61
- 1:161
- 1:211
- 1:261, 2
- 1:281
- 2:11
- 4:12
- 4:26X, 1, 2, 3
- 6:12
- 6:31
- 9:11
- 9:71
- 9:261
- 101
- 10:61
- 10:91
- 11:12
- 12:21
- 12:31
- 12:12
- 12:81
- 12:12
- 12:171
- 13:41
- 14:1XI, 2
- 17:11
- 17:181
- 17:201
- 18:181
- 19:12
- 21:171
- 21:181
- 21:211
- 21:331
- 241
- 26:251, 2
- 28:12
- 291
- 29:301
- 301
- 32:41, 2
- 32:311
- 33:31
- 33:201
- 35:12, 3
- 35:12
- 35:41
- 361
- 36:81
- 36:121
- 36:13, 12
- 36:12
- 36:11, 1, 23
- 36:13, 12
- 36:261
- 36:12
- 36:431
- 46:31
- 46:12
- 49:12
Exodus
- 12
- 1:111
- 2:1:20a2
- 2:15*1
- 2:12, 3, 4
- 31
- 3:11
- 3:1*2
- 3:2a1
- 3:12, 3
- 3:12
- 3:12, 3
- 3:12
- 3:61, 2
- 3:81
- 3:121, 2
- 3:12
- 3:12
- 3:18b, 1a, 23
- 4:17, 12, 3
- 4:12, 3
- 4:271
- 5:12
- 5:221
- 6:12
- 8:4b1
- 8:21b–24a1
- 12, 3
- 121
- 12:1:162
- 13:12
- 141, 2
- 12, 3, 4
- 14:5a1
- 14:19a1
- 151, 2
- 15:12
- 15:5.81
- 15:161
- 15:211, 2
- 15:221
- 17:61
- 181, 2, 3
- 18:12, 3
- 18:51
- 18:121, 2
- 18:12
- 12
- 19 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- 19:21
- 19:12
- 19:11, 1, 23, 4
- 19:12, 3, 4
- 20:21, 2, 3
- 20:51, 2
- 20:161
- 20:231
- 20:24ff.1
- 23:151, 2
- 24:181
- 251
- 28:431
- 30:12
- 321, 2
- 32:41, 2
- 12
- 33:181
- 33:191
- 34:12
- 34:51
- 34:12
- 40:341
Leviticus
- 10:12
- 10:91
- 12
- 16:161
Numeri
- 12:11, 2, 3, 4
- 12:121
- 13:3, 1, 23
- 24:181, 2
- 25:12, 3
- 25:61
Deuteronomium
- 1:11, 2
- 4:191, 2
- 4:12
- 5:61, 2, 3
- 5:71
- 7 1, 2
- 7:51
- 7:61
- 7:12
- 81
- 9:12
- 10:51
- 12:21
- 12:12
- 131
- 16:11
- 16:131
- 16:211
- 16:221
- 17:12
- 23:12
- 281
- 29:12
- 29:251
- 321
- 32:12, 3, 4
- 33IX–X, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- 33:21, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 33:1, 23, 4
- 33:291
Joshua
- 14:6, 1; 2:173
- 19:431
- 19:451
- 241
- 24:231
- 24:301
Judges
- 5IX–X, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
- 5:12, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
- 5:12, 3
- 5:201
- 5:241
- 5:31a1, 2
- 12, 3
1 Samuel
- 15:61
- 18:61
- 27:101
- 30:291
2 Samuel
- 5:241
- 7:12
- 8:12
- 11:11
- 15:71
- 21:171
- 23:9, 12
- 24:11
1 Kings
- 1:391
- 71
- 7:12
- 8:61
- 8:12
- 12, 3
- 11:12
- 11:181
- 11:1:242
- 11:12
- 11:12
- 121, 2, 3, 4
- 12:12
- 12:12
- 12:26ff.1, 2
- 12:281, 2, 3, 4
- 12:291, 2
- 14:12
- 16:321
- 18:111
- 18:12
- 18:12
- 19:81
- 12
2 Kings
- 8:201
- 9:131
- 10:231
- 11:121
- 12:12
- 16:81
- 18:41, 2
- 19:151
- 19:12
- 21:12
- 22:12
- 231
- 23:12
- 23:61
- 23:111, 2
1 Chronicles
- 11
- 1:31ff.1, 2
- 1:35, 12
- 1:411
- 2:551
- 5:191
- 11:12, 12
- 14:151
- 21:11
Job
- 1:61, 2
- 9:81
Psalms
- 3:31
- 12:11
- 13:41
- 18X, 1, 2, 3, 4
- 18:12
- 18:8ff.1, 2, 3
- 201
- 211
- 24X, 1
- 24:7, 12
- 24:8, 12
- 27:41
- 27:51,
- 241
- 24:12, 3
- 29 1I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- 29:12
- 31:211
- 36X, 1
- 43:31
- 451
- 461, 2
- 46:71
- 471
- 48X, 1
- 48:31
- 571
- 63:81
- 65X, 1
- 68X, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- 68:12, 3
- 68:181
- 721, 2
- 771, 2, 3
- 77:12, 3
- 77:171
- 77:191
- 821, 2, 3
- 831
- 84:121
- 851
- 85:12
- 891
- 89:12, 3,
- 92:101, 2
- 92:161
- 93X, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- 12, 3
- 94:171
- 97X, 1, 2, 3, 4
- 97:12
- 97:31, 2
- 97:41
- 97:71
- 98X, 1, 2
- 991
- 1011
- 104:41
- 1081
- 1141, 2
- 1321
- 137:71, 2
- 1441
- 1481
- 1491
- 1501
Proverbs
- 26:271
Isaiah
- 1:261
- 8:181
- 9:31
- 9:51
- 18:41
- 21:11
- 21:111
- 28:12
- 341, 2
- 38:111
- 43:12
- 45:12
- 46:11
- 51:12
- 59:91
- 60:12
- 63:12, 3, 4
- 63:191
Jeremiah
- 7:12X
- 20:91
- 49:12, 3
- 49:81
- 49:101
- 49:201
Ezekiel
- 25:12, 3
- 35:12
- 35:151
- 47:12
Hosea
- 2:171
- 81
- 8:12, 3
- 8:9, 12
- 10:51
- 10:121
- 11:11
- 121
- 12:41
- 12:101
- 12:141, 2
- 131
- 13:21, 2
- 13:12, 3
Amos
- 1:21
- 1:12, 3
- 4:131
Obadiah
- 61
- 8ff.1
- 91, 2
- 12
- 101, 2
- 121, 2
Micah
- 1:31
- 1:41
Habakkuk
- 3IX–X, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- 3:31, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
- 3:41
- 3:71, 2, 3, 4, 5
- 3:121
- 4:71
Zechariah
- 3:11
- 9:141
NEW TESTAMENT
Galatians
- 4:251
Hebrews
- 7:3XI
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TEXTS
- Amara–West topographical list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Berlin Statue Pedestal Relief 21687 1
- Egyptian Book of the Dead 1, 2, 3, 4
- Khirbet el–Kom inscription 1I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Kuntillet ‘Ajrud inscriptions 1I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Merneptah stele 1
- Mesha stele/ inscription 1I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Enuma Elish 1
- Soleb topographical list 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
1 The essays by Faried Adrom and Matthias Müller, Angelika Berlejung, Christoph Berner, Friedhelm Hartenstein, Manfred Krebernik, Reinhard Müller and Henrik Pfeiffer.
2 The essays by Ronald Hendel, Jörg Jeremias, Martin Leuenberger, Juha Pakkala and Mark S. Smith.
3 More precisely, it is a Giessen-Munich-Berlin hypothesis, since a crucial impetus for the formation of this theory dates back to an inaugural lecture by Christoph Levin at the University of Giessen in 1996. However, the lecture was only published after Levin moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) (“Das vorstaatliche Israel.” ZTK...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Titelpage
- Copyright
- Content
- Introduction
- The Divine Name * Yahwa
- Yhwh’s Original Character: Questions about an Unknown God
- The Beginnings of Yahwism from an Assyriological Perspective
- The Origins and Beginnings of the Worship of Yhwh: The Iconographic Evidence
- The Tetragrammaton in Egyptian Sources – Facts and Fiction
- The Origin of Yhwh and its Attestation
- Jörg Jeremias: Three Theses on the Early History of Israel
- Yhwh’s Provenance from the South
- “I am Yhwh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt” (Exod 20:2)
- Reinhard Müller: The Origins of Yhwh in Light of the Earliest Psalms
- God and the Gods in the Tetrateuch
- The Origins of Yahwism from the Perspective of Deuteronomism
- The Beginnings of Yhwh and “Longing for the Origin”:
- Bibliography
- Authors
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Subjects and Names
- Index of Ancient Sources