Who is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism
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How did a warrior-storm god become Yahweh, the god of world Abrahamic monotheism? By tracing the earliest history of Yahweh ("The One Exists") to his origins...

Covers the best guesses current scholarship and archæology gives about the origin of Yahweh following the Bronze Age Collapse.

  • _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thanks for sharing this, it’s got me going down a rabbit hole now! There’s just so much stuff surrounding Judaism and early Christianity that you just don’t hear about or engage with meaningfully or critically as a Christian, so now I’m enjoying getting stuck into it.

  • agent_flounderEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s an interesting topic! I havent had a chance to watch this yet.

    But the topic is one covered in The Bible Unearthed, a book that describes archaeological evidence of bronze age Judah contradicting historical claims made in the first seven books of the Bible.

    The book talks about how a particular king used an official state religion to unify the north and south regions, replacing polytheism with monotheism and basically borrowing and mashing up a couple of the many gods being worshipped at the time and compiling religious myths, traditions, etc. into what is now the first books of the bible.