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class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Portrayal</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Portrayal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Graeco-Roman_syncretism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Graeco-Roman_syncretism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Graeco-Roman syncretism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Graeco-Roman_syncretism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> 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title="Yahve – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Yahve" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8D" title="ইয়াহওয়েহ্ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ইয়াহওয়েহ্" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%85%D0%B2%D0%B5" title="Яхве – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Яхве" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Yahweh" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%85%D0%B2%D0%B5" title="Яхве – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Яхве" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A1%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9D%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8D" title="ཡ་ཝེ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཡ་ཝེ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahv%C3%A8_(antic_D%C3%A9u_d%27Israel_i_Jud%C3%A0)" title="Jahvè (antic Déu d&#039;Israel i Judà) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Jahvè (antic Déu d&#039;Israel i Judà)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehofa" title="Jehofa – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Jehofa" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahve" title="Jahve – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Jahve" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%B2%CE%AD" title="Γιαχβέ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γιαχβέ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Yahweh" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia_Javeo" title="Biblia Javeo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Biblia Javeo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%87%D9%88%D9%87" title="یهوه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="یهوه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Yahweh" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%ED%9B%BC" title="야훼 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="야훼" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%BE%D5%A5" title="Յահվե – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Յահվե" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE" title="यहोवा – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="यहोवा" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahwe" title="Yahwe – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Yahwe" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahveh" title="Jahveh – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Jahveh" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Yahweh" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%94" title="יהוה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="יהוה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%85%D0%B2%D0%B5" title="Яхве – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Яхве" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahv%C4%97" title="Jahvė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Jahvė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaw%C3%A9" title="Yawé – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Yawé" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh" title="Yahweh – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Yahweh" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0" title="Јехова – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Јехова" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iahveh" title="Iahveh – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Iahveh" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE" title="यहोवा – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="यहोवा" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D9%87" title="يهوه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="يهوه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7" title="ヤハウェ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヤハウェ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahve" title="Jahve – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Jahve" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahve" title="Yahve – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Yahve" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahwe" title="Jahwe – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Jahwe" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jav%C3%A9" title="Javé – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Javé" data-language-autonym="Português" 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class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ancient Levantine deity</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the ancient Levantine deity of Israel and Judah. For the modern Judeo-Christian conception, see <a href="/wiki/God_in_Judaism" title="God in Judaism">God in Judaism</a> and <a href="/wiki/God_in_Christianity" title="God in Christianity">God in Christianity</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Yahweh_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Yahweh (disambiguation)">Yahweh (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zeus_Yahweh.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A coin showing a bearded figure seating on a winged wheel, holding a bird on his outstretched hand" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Zeus_Yahweh.jpg/220px-Zeus_Yahweh.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Zeus_Yahweh.jpg/330px-Zeus_Yahweh.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Zeus_Yahweh.jpg/440px-Zeus_Yahweh.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1602" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/God_on_the_Winged_Wheel_coin" title="God on the Winged Wheel coin">God on the Winged Wheel coin</a>, minted in <a href="/wiki/Gaza_City" title="Gaza City">Gaza City</a>, southern <a href="/wiki/Philistia" title="Philistia">Philistia</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Eber-Nari" title="Eber-Nari">Persian period</a> of the 4th century BCE. 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var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_deities" title="Ancient Egyptian deities">Ancient Egyptian</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amun" title="Amun">Amun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apis_(deity)" title="Apis (deity)">Apis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atum" title="Atum">Atum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buchis" title="Buchis">Buchis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geb" title="Geb">Geb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montu" title="Montu">Montu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nephthys" title="Nephthys">Nephthys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nut_(goddess)" title="Nut (goddess)">Nut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osiris" title="Osiris">Osiris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptah" title="Ptah">Ptah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qetesh" title="Qetesh">Qetesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Set_(deity)" title="Set (deity)">Set</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shu_(Egyptian_god)" title="Shu (Egyptian god)">Shu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tefnut" title="Tefnut">Tefnut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thoth" title="Thoth">Thoth</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_pre-Islamic_Arabian_deities" title="List of pre-Islamic Arabian deities">Arabian</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allah" title="Allah">Allah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aglibol" title="Aglibol">Aglibol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apkallu" title="Apkallu">Abgal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Lat" title="Al-Lat">al-Lat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaum" title="Al-Qaum">al-Qaum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-%E2%80%98Uzz%C3%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-‘Uzzá">al-‘Uzzá</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atarsamain" title="Atarsamain">Atarsamain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%CA%BFA%E1%B9%AFtar" title="ʿAṯtar">ʿAṯtar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baalshamin" title="Baalshamin">Baalshamin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bel_(mythology)" title="Bel (mythology)">Bēl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demolition_of_Dhul_Khalasa" title="Demolition of Dhul Khalasa">Dhul Khalasa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dushara" title="Dushara">Dushara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gad_(deity)" title="Gad (deity)">Gad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubal" title="Hubal">Hubal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malakbel" title="Malakbel">Malakbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manaf_(deity)" title="Manaf (deity)">Manaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manat_(goddess)" title="Manat (goddess)">Manāt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasr_(deity)" title="Nasr (deity)">Nasr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuha_(deity)" title="Nuha (deity)">Nuha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orotalt" title="Orotalt">Orotalt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruda_(deity)" title="Ruda (deity)">Ruda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suwa%27" title="Suwa&#39;">Suwa'</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theandrios" title="Theandrios">Theandrios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadd" title="Wadd">Wadd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ya%27uq" title="Ya&#39;uq">Ya'uq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yagh%C5%ABth" title="Yaghūth">Yaghūth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarhibol" title="Yarhibol">Yarhibol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yatha" title="Yatha">Yatha</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Ebla#Religion" title="Ebla">Eblaite</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adamma_(goddess)" title="Adamma (goddess)">Adamma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%A1tabi" title="Aštabi">Aštabil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagon" title="Dagon">Dagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadabal" title="Hadabal">Hadabal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Hadad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%AAalabatu" class="mw-redirect" title="Ḫalabatu">Ḫalabatu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C5%A1%E1%B8%ABara" title="Išḫara">Išḫara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kura_(deity)" title="Kura (deity)">Kura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninkarrak" title="Ninkarrak">Ninkarrak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saggar_(god)" title="Saggar (god)">Saggar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalash" title="Shalash">Shalash</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Elam#Religion" title="Elam">Elamite</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Humban" title="Humban">Humban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inshushinak" title="Inshushinak">Inshushinak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishmekarab" title="Ishmekarab">Ishmekarab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabru" title="Jabru">Jabru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiririsha" title="Kiririsha">Kiririsha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lagamal" title="Lagamal">Lagamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manzat_(goddess)" title="Manzat (goddess)">Manzat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahhunte" title="Nahhunte">Nahhunte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narundi" title="Narundi">Narundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napir" title="Napir">Napir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napirisha" title="Napirisha">Napirisha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinikir" title="Pinikir">Pinikir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruhurater" title="Ruhurater">Ruhurater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simut_(god)" title="Simut (god)">Simut</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hurrian_deities" title="List of Hurrian deities">Hurrian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hittite_mythology_and_religion" title="Hittite mythology and religion">Hittite</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allani" title="Allani">Allani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%A1tabi" title="Aštabi">Aštabi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enki" title="Enki">Hayya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%AAepat" title="Ḫepat">Ḫepat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutena_and_Hutellura" title="Hutena and Hutellura">Hutena and Hutellura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/I%C5%A1%E1%B8%ABara" title="Išḫara">Išḫara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kubaba_(goddess)" title="Kubaba (goddess)">Kubaba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumarbi" title="Kumarbi">Kumarbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ku%C5%A1u%E1%B8%AB" title="Kušuḫ">Kušuḫ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lelluri" title="Lelluri">Lelluri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitanni" title="Mitanni">Mitanni</a> dynastic deities (<a href="/wiki/Indra" title="Indra">Indra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitra" title="Mitra">Mitra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Varuna" title="Varuna">Varuna</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabarbi" title="Nabarbi">Nabarbi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninatta_and_Kulitta" title="Ninatta and Kulitta">Ninatta and Kulitta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nupatik" title="Nupatik">Nupatik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinikir#In_Syria_and_Anatolia" title="Pinikir">Pirengir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalash" title="Shalash">Shalash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0arruma" title="Šarruma">Šarruma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0au%C5%A1ka" title="Šauška">Šauška</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0imige" title="Šimige">Šimige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0uwala" class="mw-redirect" title="Šuwala">Šuwala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takitu" title="Takitu">Takitu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta%C5%A1mi%C5%A1u" title="Tašmišu">Tašmišu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teshub" title="Teshub">Teshub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilla_(deity)" title="Tilla (deity)">Tilla</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)">Levantine<br />(<a href="/wiki/Canaanite_religion#Beliefs" title="Canaanite religion">Canaanite</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Ugaritic_deities" title="List of Ugaritic deities">Ugaritic</a>)</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adonis" title="Adonis">Adonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anat" title="Anat">Anat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arsay" title="Arsay">Arsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asherah" title="Asherah">Asherah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashima" title="Ashima">Ashima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astarte" title="Astarte">Astarte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atargatis" title="Atargatis">Atargatis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%CA%BFA%E1%B9%AFtar" title="ʿAṯtar">ʿAṯtar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azizos" title="Azizos">Azizos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baʿal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baal_Hammon" title="Baal Hammon">Baʿal Ḥammon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marqod" class="mw-redirect" title="Marqod">Baʿal Marqod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baal-zephon" title="Baal-zephon">Baʿal Ṣapon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baalshamin" title="Baalshamin">Baʿalshamem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baalat_Gebal" title="Baalat Gebal">Baʿalat Gebal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chemosh" title="Chemosh">Chemosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dagon" title="Dagon">Dagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_(deity)" title="El (deity)">El</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eshmun" title="Eshmun">Eshmun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Haddu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kotharat" title="Kotharat">Kotharat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kothar-wa-Khasis" title="Kothar-wa-Khasis">Kothar-wa-Khasis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milcom" title="Milcom">Milcom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Misor" title="Misor">Misor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mot_(god)" title="Mot (god)">Mot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikkal" title="Nikkal">Nikkal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qetesh" title="Qetesh">Qedesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qos_(deity)" title="Qos (deity)">Qos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resheph" title="Resheph">Resheph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakkun" title="Sakkun">Sakkun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadrafa" title="Shadrafa">Shadrafa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shahar_(god)" title="Shahar (god)">Shahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shalim" title="Shalim">Shalim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shapshu" title="Shapshu">Shapshu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydyk" title="Sydyk">Sydyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanit" title="Tanit">Tanit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yam_(god)" title="Yam (god)">Yam</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Yahweh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarikh" title="Yarikh">Yarikh</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="font-size:115%; border-top: #aaa 1px solid; text-align: left;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mesopotamian_deities" title="List of Mesopotamian deities">Mesopotamian</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hadad" title="Hadad">Adad/Ishkur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amurru_(god)" title="Amurru (god)">Amurru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anu" title="Anu">An/Anu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asaruludu" 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title="Papsukkal">Papsukkal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarpanit" title="Sarpanit">Sarpanit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebitti" title="Sebitti">Sebitti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tishpak" title="Tishpak">Tishpak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utu" class="mw-redirect" title="Utu">Utu/Shamash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wer_(god)" title="Wer (god)">Wer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zababa" title="Zababa">Zababa</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East" title="Religions of the ancient Near East">Religions of the ancient Near East</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar 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href="/wiki/Template:Middle_Eastern_deities" title="Template:Middle Eastern deities"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Middle_Eastern_deities" title="Template talk:Middle Eastern deities"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Middle_Eastern_deities" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Middle Eastern deities"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Yahweh</b><sup id="cite_ref-name_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-name-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was an <a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East" title="Religions of the ancient Near East">ancient Levantine deity</a> who was venerated in <a href="/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah" title="History of ancient Israel and Judah">Israel and Judah</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMillerHayes1986110_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMillerHayes1986110-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehr199554-55_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehr199554-55-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Though no consensus exists regarding his origins,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFleming20203_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFleming20203-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> scholars generally contend that he is associated with <a href="/wiki/Mount_Seir" title="Mount Seir">Seir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edom" title="Edom">Edom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Desert_of_Paran" title="Desert of Paran">Paran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teman_(Edom)" title="Teman (Edom)">Teman</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201742_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201742-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and later with <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a>. His worship reaches back to at least the <a href="/wiki/Early_Iron_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Early Iron Age">Early Iron Age</a>, and likely to the <a href="/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="Late Bronze Age">Late Bronze Age</a>, if not somewhat earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller20001_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller20001-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While the <a href="/wiki/Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a> held him as their <a href="/wiki/National_god" title="National god">national god</a>, their religion—known as <a href="/wiki/Yahwism" title="Yahwism">Yahwism</a>, involving the worship of Yahweh among a broader <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_(religion)" title="Pantheon (religion)">Semitic pantheon</a>—was still essentially <a href="/wiki/Polytheistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polytheistic">polytheistic</a> or, according to some accounts, <a href="/wiki/Monolatry#In_ancient_Israel" title="Monolatry">monolatristic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, during and after the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian captivity</a> in the 6th century BCE, the Israelite religion gradually evolved into <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samaritanism" title="Samaritanism">Samaritanism</a>, which are both strictly <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">monotheistic</a> and thus regard Yahweh as <a href="/wiki/God_in_Abrahamic_religions" title="God in Abrahamic religions">God</a> in the singular sense—that is, as the supreme being of the universe and without any equals. </p><p>In the oldest examples of <a href="/wiki/Biblical_literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical literature">biblical literature</a>, Yahweh possesses attributes that were typically ascribed to deities of <a href="/wiki/Weather_god" title="Weather god">weather</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_war_deities" title="List of war deities">war</a>, fructifying the <a href="/wiki/Land_of_Israel" title="Land of Israel">Land of Israel</a> and leading a <a href="/wiki/Heavenly_host#Tanakh" title="Heavenly host">heavenly army</a> against the nation's enemies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–59_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–59-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The early Israelites may have leaned towards polytheistic practices that were otherwise common across <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion" title="Ancient Semitic religion">ancient Semitic religion</a>, as their worship apparently included a variety of <a href="/wiki/Canaanite_religion" title="Canaanite religion">Canaanite gods and goddesses</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/El_(deity)" title="El (deity)">El</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asherah" title="Asherah">Asherah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20027_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20027-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated, and El-linked epithets, such as <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn"><a href="/wiki/El_Shaddai" title="El Shaddai">ʾĒl Šadday</a></i></span> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֵל שַׁדַּי</span>&#8206;), came to be applied to Yahweh alone.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some scholars believe that El and Yahweh were always conflated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020222-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197396–97_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197396–97-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornell202118_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornell202118-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Characteristics of other deities, such as Asherah and Baal, were also selectively "absorbed" in conceptions of Yahweh.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_135_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_135-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201738_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201738-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornell202120_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECornell202120-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over time, the existence of other deities was denied outright, and Yahweh was proclaimed the <a href="/wiki/Creator_deity" title="Creator deity">creator deity</a> and the sole divinity to be worthy of worship. During the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a>, openly speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as a religious taboo,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jews</a> instead began to substitute <a href="/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Judaism#Adonai" title="Names of God in Judaism">other Hebrew words</a>, primarily <span title="Hebrew-language romanization"><i lang="he-Latn">ăḏōnāy</i></span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אֲדֹנָי‬</span>&#8206;, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;">&#8201;</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">My <a href="/wiki/Pluralis_majestatis" class="mw-redirect" title="Pluralis majestatis">Lords</a></span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>). By the time of the <a href="/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars" title="Jewish–Roman wars">Jewish–Roman wars</a>—namely following the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)">Roman siege of Jerusalem</a> and the concomitant destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a> in 70 CE—the <a href="/wiki/YHWH" class="mw-redirect" title="YHWH">original pronunciation of Yahweh's name</a> was forgotten entirely.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Additionally, Yahweh is invoked in the <a href="/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic">Aramaic</a>-language <a href="/wiki/Papyrus_Amherst_63" title="Papyrus Amherst 63">Papyrus Amherst 63</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">ancient Egypt</a>, and also in Jewish or Jewish-influenced <a href="/wiki/Graeco-Egyptian_magical_papyri" class="mw-redirect" title="Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri">Greco-Egyptian magical texts</a> from the 1st to 5th centuries CE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg/220px-Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg/330px-Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg/440px-Tetragrammaton_Sefardi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="662" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Tetragrammaton" title="Tetragrammaton">Tetragrammaton</a>, inscribed on the page of a <a href="/wiki/Sephardi_Hebrew" title="Sephardi Hebrew">Sephardic</a> <a href="/wiki/Torah_scroll" title="Torah scroll">manuscript</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a>, 1385</figcaption></figure> <p>The god's name was written in <a href="/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet" title="Paleo-Hebrew alphabet">paleo-Hebrew</a> as <span title="Hebrew-language text"><span lang="he-Phnx" dir="rtl">𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄</span></span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">יהוה</span>&#8206; in <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">block script</a>), transliterated as <a href="/wiki/YHWH" class="mw-redirect" title="YHWH">YHWH</a>; modern scholarship has reached consensus to transcribe this as "Yahweh".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The shortened forms <i>Yeho</i>-, <i>Yahu</i>-, <i><a href="/wiki/Jah" title="Jah">Yah</a></i>- and <i>Yo</i>- appear in <a href="/wiki/Theophory_in_the_Bible#Yah_theophory" title="Theophory in the Bible">personal names</a> and in phrases such as "<a href="/wiki/Hallelujah" title="Hallelujah">Hallelu<i>jah</i></a>!"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreuss2008823_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreuss2008823-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The sacrality of the name, as well as the <a href="/wiki/Ten_Commandments" title="Ten Commandments">Commandment</a> against "<a href="/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_take_the_name_of_the_Lord_thy_God_in_vain" title="Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain">taking the name 'in vain'</a>&#8202;", led to increasingly strict prohibitions on speaking or writing the term. Rabbinic sources suggest that, by the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_Judaism" title="Second Temple Judaism">Second Temple period</a>, the name of God was officially pronounced only once a year, by the <a href="/wiki/High_Priest_of_Israel" title="High Priest of Israel">High Priest</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur" title="Yom Kippur">Day of Atonement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)">destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE</a>, the original pronunciation of the name was forgotten entirely.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg/220px-%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg/330px-%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg/440px-%D7%9B%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%91%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2228" data-file-height="1556" /></a><figcaption>Uriyahu inscription, <a href="/wiki/Khirbet_el-Qom" title="Khirbet el-Qom">Khirbet el-Qom</a>, 8th c. BCE, "Blessed is/be Uriyahu by Yahweh"</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periods">Periods</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Philip_King_(historian)" title="Philip King (historian)">Philip King</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Stager" title="Lawrence Stager">Lawrence Stager</a> place the history of Yahweh into the following periods: </p> <ul><li>Late Bronze: 1550–1200&#160;BCE</li> <li>Iron Age I: 1200–1000&#160;BCE</li> <li>Iron Age II: 1000–586&#160;BCE</li> <li>Neo-Babylonian: 586–539&#160;BCE</li> <li>Persian: 539–332&#160;BCE<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKingStager2001xxiii_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKingStager2001xxiii-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Other academic terms often used include First Temple period, from the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple</a> in 957&#160;BCE to its destruction in 586&#160;BCE, exilic for the period of the Exile from 586 to 539&#160;BCE (identical with Neo-Babylonian above), post-Exilic for later periods and <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_period" title="Second Temple period">Second Temple period</a> from the reconstruction of the Temple in 515&#160;BCE until its destruction in 70&#160;CE. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_Bronze_Age_origins_(1550–1200_BCE)"><span id="Late_Bronze_Age_origins_.281550.E2.80.931200_BCE.29"></span>Late Bronze Age origins (1550–1200&#160;BCE)</h3></div> <p>There is almost no agreement on Yahweh's origins.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFleming20203_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFleming20203-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His name is not attested other than among the Israelites, and there is no consensus on its etymology, with <i>ehyeh ašer ehyeh</i> ("<a href="/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am" title="I Am that I Am">I Am that I Am</a>"), the explanation presented in <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Exodus" title="Book of Exodus">Exodus</a> 3:14,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> appearing to be a late theological <a href="/wiki/Gloss_(annotation)" title="Gloss (annotation)">gloss</a> invented at a time when the original meaning had been forgotten,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParke-Taylor197551_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEParke-Taylor197551-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although some scholars dispute this.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020214_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020214-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller_II202118_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller_II202118-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Lewis connects the name to the <a href="/wiki/Amorite_language" title="Amorite language">Amorite</a> element <i>yahwi-</i> (<i>ia-wi</i>), found in personal names in <a href="/wiki/Mari,_Syria" title="Mari, Syria">Mari</a> texts,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKitz201942,_57_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKitz201942,_57-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> meaning "brings to life/causes to exist" (e.g. <i>yahwi-dagan</i> = "<a href="/wiki/Dagon" title="Dagon">Dagon</a> causes to exist"), commonly denoted as the semantic equivalent of the <a href="/wiki/Akkadian_language" title="Akkadian language">Akkadian</a> <i>ibašši-</i>DN;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020211,_215_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020211,_215-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> though <a href="/wiki/Frank_Moore_Cross" title="Frank Moore Cross">Frank Moore Cross</a> emphasized that the Amorite verbal form is of interest only in attempting to reconstruct the verbal root of the name "Yahweh", and that attempts to take <i>yahwi-</i> as a divine epithet should be "vigorously" argued against.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197361–63_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197361–63-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, J. Philip Hyatt believes it is more likely that <i>yahwi-</i> refers to a god creating and sustaining the life of a newborn child rather than the universe. This conception of God was more popular among ancient Near Easterners but eventually, the Israelites removed the association of <i>yahwi-</i> to any human ancestor and combined it with other elements (e.g. <i>Yahweh ṣəḇāʾōṯ</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The source is literally almost 60 years old. (April 2024)">needs update</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Hillel Ben-Sasson states there is insufficient evidence for Amorites using <i>yahwi-</i> for gods, but he argues that it mirrors other theophoric names and that <i>yahwi-</i>, or more accurately <i>yawi</i>, derives from the root <i>hwy</i> in <i>pa'al,</i> which means "he will be".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBen-Sasson201955–56_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBen-Sasson201955–56-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>One scholarly theory is that "Yahweh" originated in a shortened form of <i>ˀel ḏū yahwī ṣabaˀôt</i>, "El who creates the hosts",<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller20002_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller20002-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which Cross considered to be one of the cultic names of El.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197371_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197371-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, this phrase is nowhere attested either inside or outside the Bible, and the two gods are in any case quite dissimilar, with El being elderly and paternal and lacking Yahweh's association with the storm and battles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDay200213–14_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDay200213–14-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Even if the above issues are resolved, Yahweh is generally agreed to have a non-causative etymology because otherwise, YHWH would be translated as YHYH.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020222-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It also raises the question of why the Israelites would want to shorten the epithet. One possible reason includes the co-existence of religious modernism and conservatism being the norm in all religions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020222-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The oldest plausible occurrence of Yahweh's name is in the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_language" title="Egyptian language">Egyptian</a> <a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">demonym</a> <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%EA%9C%A3-%C5%A1%EA%9C%A3sw-yhw%EA%9C%A3" class="extiw" title="wikt:tꜣ-šꜣsw-yhwꜣ">tꜣ šꜣsw Yhwꜣ</a></i>, "<i>YHWA</i> (in) the Land of the <a href="/wiki/Shasu" title="Shasu">Shasu</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_language" title="Egyptian language">Egyptian</a>: <span style="font-family:&#39;Egyptian Text&#39;, &#39;Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs&#39;">𓇌𓉔𓍯𓄿</span> <i>Yhwꜣ</i>) in an inscription from the time of <a href="/wiki/Amenhotep_III" title="Amenhotep III">Amenhotep III</a> (1390–1352 BCE),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShalomi_Hen2021_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShalomi_Hen2021-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015100_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015100-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Shasu" title="Shasu">Shasu</a> being nomads from <a href="/wiki/Midian" title="Midian">Midian</a> and Edom in northern Arabia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007151_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007151-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although it is still uncertain whether a relationship exists between the toponym <i>yhwꜣ</i> and theonym <i>YHWH</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the dominant view is that Yahweh was from the southern region associated with <a href="/wiki/Mount_Seir" title="Mount Seir">Seir</a>, Edom, <a href="/wiki/Desert_of_Paran" title="Desert of Paran">Paran</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teman_(Edom)" title="Teman (Edom)">Teman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201742_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201742-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There is considerable although not universal support for this view,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007153_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007153-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but it raises the question of how Yahweh made his way to the north.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An answer many scholars consider plausible is the <a href="/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis" title="Kenite hypothesis">Kenite hypothesis</a>, which holds that traders brought Yahweh to Israel along the <a href="/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)" title="Caravan (travellers)">caravan</a> routes between <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canaan" title="Canaan">Canaan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912–13_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912–13-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This ties together various points of data, such as the absence of Yahweh from Canaan, his links with Edom and <a href="/wiki/Midian" title="Midian">Midian</a> in the biblical stories, and the <a href="/wiki/Kenite" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenite">Kenite</a> or Midianite ties of <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1999912-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but its major weaknesses are that the majority of Israelites were firmly rooted in <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a>, while the historical role of Moses is problematic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1995247–248_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1995247–248-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It follows that if the Kenite hypothesis is to be maintained, then it must be assumed that the Israelites encountered Yahweh (and the Midianites/Kenites) inside Israel and through their association with the earliest political leaders of Israel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1995248_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_der_Toorn1995248-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Christian Frevel argues that inscriptions allegedly suggesting Yahweh's southern origins (e.g. "YHWH of Teman") may simply denote his presence there at later times, and that Teman can refer to any southern territory, including Judah.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alternatively, some scholars argue that YHWH worship was rooted in the indigenous culture of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">Kingdom of Israel</a> and was promoted in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Kingdom of Judah</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Omrides" title="Omrides">Omrides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Frevel suggests that <a href="/wiki/Hazael" title="Hazael">Hazael</a>'s conquests in the Kingdom of Israel forced the two kingdoms to cooperate, which spread YHWH worship among Judean commoners. Previously, YHWH was viewed as the patron god of the Judean <i>state</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Iron_Age_(1200–1000_BCE)"><span id="Early_Iron_Age_.281200.E2.80.931000_BCE.29"></span>Early Iron Age (1200–1000&#160;BCE)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bull_site_statuette.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A bronze bull" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Bull_site_statuette.png/220px-Bull_site_statuette.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Bull_site_statuette.png/330px-Bull_site_statuette.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Bull_site_statuette.png/440px-Bull_site_statuette.png 2x" data-file-width="1877" data-file-height="2052" /></a><figcaption>Early Iron Age bull figurine from <a href="/wiki/Bull_Site" title="Bull Site">Bull Site</a> at Dhahrat et-Tawileh (modern <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a>, ancient <a href="/wiki/Mount_Ephraim" title="Mount Ephraim">Ephraim</a>), representing El, Baal or Yahweh<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith200283_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith200283-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStavrakopoulou2021395_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStavrakopoulou2021395-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In the Early Iron Age, the modern consensus is that there was no distinction in language or <a href="/wiki/Material_culture" title="Material culture">material culture</a> between Canaanites and Israelites. Scholars accordingly define Israelite culture as a subset of Canaanite culture.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20027,_19–31_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20027,_19–31-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In this view, the Israelite religion consisted of Canaanite gods such as El, the ruler of the <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_(religion)" title="Pantheon (religion)">pantheon</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGolden2009182_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGolden2009182-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Asherah" title="Asherah">Asherah</a>, his consort, and <a href="/wiki/Baal" title="Baal">Baal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith200219–31_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith200219–31-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Israel_Knohl" title="Israel Knohl">Israel Knohl</a> argues that there is no evidence of any anthropomorphic figurines or cultic statues in Israel during this period, suggesting monotheistic practice.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKnohl2017171–172_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKnohl2017171–172-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p> In the earliest Biblical literature, Yahweh has characteristics of a storm god typical of ancient Near Eastern myths, marching out from <a href="/wiki/Edom" title="Edom">Edom</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Sinai_desert" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinai desert">Sinai desert</a> with the heavenly host of stars and planets that make up his army to do battle with the enemies of his people Israel:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–160_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–160-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,<br /> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;when you marched out of the field of Edom,<br /> the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.<br /> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Yes, the clouds dropped water.<br /> The mountains quaked at Yahweh's presence,<br /> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.<br /> ...<br /> From the sky the stars fought.<br /> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;From their courses, they fought against <a href="/wiki/Sisera" title="Sisera">Sisera</a>.<br /> <br /> (<a href="/wiki/Book_of_Judges" title="Book of Judges">Book of Judges</a> 5:4–5, 20, <i>WEB</i> <a href="/wiki/World_English_Bible" title="World English Bible">World English Bible</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Deborah" class="mw-redirect" title="Song of Deborah">Song of Deborah</a>.) </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Alternatively, parts of the storm god imagery could derive from Baal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201738_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201738-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:3_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 78">&#58;&#8202;78&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>From the perspective of the <a href="/wiki/Kenite_hypothesis" title="Kenite hypothesis">Kenite hypothesis</a>, it has also been suggested that the Edomite deity <a href="/wiki/Q%C5%8Ds" class="mw-redirect" title="Qōs">Qōs</a> might have been one and the same as Yahweh, rather than a separate deity, with its name a title of the latter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015101_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015101-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Aside from their common territorial origins, various common characteristics between the <a href="/wiki/Yahwism" title="Yahwism">Yahwist cult</a> and the Edomite cult of Qōs hint at a shared connection.<sup id="cite_ref-Manyanya_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manyanya-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Doeg_the_Edomite" title="Doeg the Edomite">Doeg the Edomite</a>, for example, is depicted as having no problem in worshiping Yahweh and is shown to be at home in Jewish sanctuaries.<sup id="cite_ref-Manyanya_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manyanya-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike the chief god of the <a href="/wiki/Ammon" title="Ammon">Ammonites</a> (<a href="/wiki/Milcom" title="Milcom">Milcom</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/Moabites" class="mw-redirect" title="Moabites">Moabites</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chemosh" title="Chemosh">Chemosh</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Tanakh" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanakh">Tanakh</a> refrains from explicitly naming the Edomite Qōs.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some scholars have explained this notable omission by assuming that the level of similarity between Yahweh and Qōs would have made rejection of the latter difficult.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDicou1994177_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDicou1994177-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other scholars hold that Yahweh and Qōs were different deities from their origins, and suggest that the tensions between Judeans and Edomites during the Second Temple period may lie behind the omission of Qōs in the Bible.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETebes2023_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETebes2023-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_Iron_Age_(1000–586_BCE)"><span id="Late_Iron_Age_.281000.E2.80.93586_BCE.29"></span>Late Iron Age (1000–586&#160;BCE)</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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The <a href="/wiki/Winged_disk" class="mw-redirect" title="Winged disk">winged disk</a> is thought to represent Yahweh.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg/200px-Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg/300px-Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg/400px-Brockhaus_and_Efron_Jewish_Encyclopedia_e12_486-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="573" data-file-height="378" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Winged_disk" class="mw-redirect" title="Winged disk">Winged disk</a> seal reproduced in the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Encyclopedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Encyclopedia">Jewish Encyclopedia</a>, 1906</div></div></div></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ajrud.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A reconstructed two-handled jar, with many missing fragments. In the centre, two bull-headed figures look towards us. There are other figures and the scene is hard to make out." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ajrud.jpg/220px-Ajrud.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ajrud.jpg/330px-Ajrud.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ajrud.jpg/440px-Ajrud.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1366" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Painting on a <a href="/wiki/Kuntillet_Ajrud_inscriptions" title="Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions">jar found at Kuntillet Ajrud</a>, under the inscription "Yahweh of Samaria and his Asherah" (c.&#160;800&#160;BCE)</figcaption></figure> <p>It has been argued that Yahweh was originally described as one of the sons of El in <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Moses" title="Song of Moses">Deuteronomy 32:8–9</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and that this was removed by a later emendation to the text:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson201577_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson201577-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,<br /> &#160;when he divided up humankind,<br /> he set the boundaries of the peoples,<br /> &#160;according to the number of the heavenly assembly.<br /> For the Lord's allotment is his people,<br /> &#160;<a href="/wiki/Jacob" title="Jacob">Jacob</a> is his special possession.<br /> <br /> (<a href="/wiki/Book_of_Deuteronomy" title="Book of Deuteronomy">Book of Deuteronomy</a> 32:8-9, <a href="/wiki/New_English_Translation" title="New English Translation">New English Translation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Song_of_Moses" title="Song of Moses">Song of Moses</a>) </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Nonetheless, some scholars argue that El Elyon ("the Most High") and Yahweh are <a href="/wiki/Theonyms" class="mw-redirect" title="Theonyms">theonyms</a> for the same deity in the text, based on contextual analysis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHess2007103–104_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHess2007103–104-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2008203_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2008203-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The late <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> saw the emergence of <a href="/wiki/Nation_state" title="Nation state">nation states</a> associated with specific <a href="/wiki/National_god" title="National god">national gods</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchniedewind201393_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchniedewind201393-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chemosh" title="Chemosh">Chemosh</a> was the god of the Moabites, <a href="/wiki/Milcom" title="Milcom">Milcom</a> the god of the Ammonites, Qōs the god of the Edomites, and Yahweh the god of the Israelites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHackett2001156_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHackett2001156-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In each kingdom the king was also the head of the national religion and thus the <a href="/wiki/Viceroy" title="Viceroy">viceroy</a> on Earth of the national god.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200090_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200090-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yahweh filled the role of national god in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Israel_(Samaria)" title="Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)">kingdom of Israel (Samaria)</a>, which emerged in the 10th century BCE; and also in <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah" title="Kingdom of Judah">Judah</a>, which may have emerged a century later<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGeller2012unpaginated_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGeller2012unpaginated-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (no "God of Judah" is mentioned anywhere in the Bible).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHackett2001156_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHackett2001156-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the reign of <a href="/wiki/Ahab" title="Ahab">Ahab</a>, and particularly following his marriage to <a href="/wiki/Jezebel" title="Jezebel">Jezebel</a>, Baal may have briefly replaced Yahweh as the national god of Israel (but not Judah).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith200271–72_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith200271–72-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECampbell2001221–222_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECampbell2001221–222-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/9th_century_BCE" class="mw-redirect" title="9th century BCE">9th century BCE</a>, there are indications of rejection of Baal worship associated with the prophets <a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elisha" title="Elisha">Elisha</a>. The Yahweh-religion thus began to separate itself from its Canaanite heritage; this process continued over the period from 800 to 500&#160;BCE with legal and prophetic condemnations of the <a href="/wiki/Asherim" class="mw-redirect" title="Asherim">asherim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sun_worship" class="mw-redirect" title="Sun worship">sun worship</a> and worship on the <a href="/wiki/High_place" title="High place">high places</a>, along with practices pertaining to the dead and other aspects of the old religion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20029_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20029-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Features of Baal, El, and Asherah were absorbed into Yahweh, and epithets such as <a href="/wiki/El_Shaddai" title="El Shaddai">El Shaddai</a> came to be applied to Yahweh alone.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34,_135_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34,_135-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In this atmosphere a struggle emerged between those who believed that Yahweh alone should be worshipped, and those who worshipped him within a larger group of gods;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESperling2017254_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESperling2017254-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the Yahweh-alone party, the party of the <a href="/wiki/Prophet" title="Prophet">prophets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deuteronomist" title="Deuteronomist">Deuteronomists</a>, ultimately triumphed, and their victory lies behind the biblical narrative of an Israel vacillating between periods of "following other gods" and periods of <a href="/wiki/Fidelity" title="Fidelity">fidelity</a> to Yahweh.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESperling2017254_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESperling2017254-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some scholars date the start of widespread monotheism to the <a href="/wiki/8th_century_BC" title="8th century BC">8th century BC</a>E, and view it as a response to <a href="/wiki/Neo-Assyrian_Empire" title="Neo-Assyrian Empire">Neo-Assyrian</a> aggression.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2016287_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2016287-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199461_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199461-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In an inscription discovered in <a href="/wiki/Ein_Gedi" title="Ein Gedi">Ein Gedi</a> and dated around 700 BCE, Yahweh appears described as the lord of "the nations", while in other contemporary texts discovered in <a href="/wiki/Khirbet_Beit_Lei" title="Khirbet Beit Lei">Khirbet Beit Lei</a> (near Lachish) he is mentioned as the ruler of Jerusalem and probably also of Judah.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHess2020247–248_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHess2020247–248-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neo-Babylonian_and_Persian_Periods_(586–332_BCE)"><span id="Neo-Babylonian_and_Persian_Periods_.28586.E2.80.93332_BCE.29"></span>Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods (586–332&#160;BCE)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_Judaism" title="Second Temple Judaism">Second Temple Judaism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jerus-n4i.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A model building, with a large cubic structure to the rear and an open courtyard in front, surrounded by crenelated and turreted walls" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jerus-n4i.jpg/300px-Jerus-n4i.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jerus-n4i.jpg/450px-Jerus-n4i.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Jerus-n4i.jpg/600px-Jerus-n4i.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1761" data-file-height="1161" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Holyland_Model_of_Jerusalem" title="Holyland Model of Jerusalem">Holyland Model of Jerusalem</a>'s representation of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple" title="Second Temple">Second Temple</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Herod%27s_temple" class="mw-redirect" title="Herod&#39;s temple">rebuilt</a> by <a href="/wiki/Herod_the_great" class="mw-redirect" title="Herod the great">Herod</a> c.&#160;20–10&#160;BCE (modern model, 1:50 scale)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 587/6&#160;BCE <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(587_BC)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (587 BC)">Jerusalem fell</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Neo-Babylonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Babylonian">Neo-Babylonians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solomon%27s_Temple" title="Solomon&#39;s Temple">Solomon's Temple</a> was destroyed, and the leadership of the community were deported.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe20102_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe20102-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The next 50 years, the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_exile" class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonian exile">Babylonian exile</a>, were of pivotal importance to the history of Israelite religion. As the traditional <a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">sacrifices</a> to Yahweh (see below) could not be performed outside Israel, other practices including <a href="/wiki/Biblical_Sabbath" title="Biblical Sabbath">sabbath</a> observance and <a href="/wiki/Brit_milah" title="Brit milah">circumcision</a> gained new significance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECogan2001271_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECogan2001271-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the writing of <a href="/wiki/Second_Isaiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Isaiah">second Isaiah</a>, Yahweh was no longer seen as exclusive to Israel, but as extending his promise to all who would keep the sabbath and observe his covenant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECogan2001274_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECogan2001274-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 539&#160;BCE <a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Babylon" title="Fall of Babylon">Babylon in turn fell</a> to the Persian conqueror <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great" title="Cyrus the Great">Cyrus the Great</a>, the exiles were given permission to return (although only a minority did so), and by about 500&#160;BCE the Second Temple was built.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe20102–3_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe20102–3-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Towards the end of the Second Temple period, speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as <a href="/wiki/Taboo" title="Taboo">taboo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When reading from the scriptures, Jews began to substitute the divine name with the word <i><a href="/wiki/Adonai" class="mw-redirect" title="Adonai">adonai</a></i> (אֲדֹנָי‬), meaning "<a href="/wiki/Lord#Religion" title="Lord">my Lord</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/High_Priest_of_Israel" title="High Priest of Israel">High Priest of Israel</a> was permitted to speak the name once in the Temple during the <a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur" title="Yom Kippur">Day of Atonement</a>, but at no other time and in no other place.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a>, the scriptures were translated into Greek by the Jews of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt" title="History of the Jews in Egypt">Egyptian diaspora</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooganBrettlerNewsom2007xxvi_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooganBrettlerNewsom2007xxvi-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures render both the tetragrammaton and <i>adonai</i> as <i><a href="/wiki/Kyrios" title="Kyrios">kyrios</a></i> (κύριος), meaning "Lord".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The period of Persian rule saw the development of expectation in a future human king who would rule <a href="/wiki/Ritual_purification" title="Ritual purification">purified</a> Israel as Yahweh's representative at the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_eschatology" title="Jewish eschatology">end of time</a>—a <a href="/wiki/Messiah" title="Messiah">messiah</a>. The first to mention this were <a href="/wiki/Haggai" title="Haggai">Haggai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zechariah_(Hebrew_prophet)" title="Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)">Zechariah</a>, both prophets of the early Persian period. They saw the messiah in <a href="/wiki/Zerubbabel" title="Zerubbabel">Zerubbabel</a>, a descendant of the <a href="/wiki/Davidic_line" title="Davidic line">House of David</a> who seemed, briefly, to be about to re-establish the ancient royal line, or in Zerubbabel and the first High Priest, <a href="/wiki/Joshua_the_High_Priest" title="Joshua the High Priest">Joshua</a> (Zechariah writes of two messiahs, one royal and the other priestly). These early hopes were dashed (Zerubabbel disappeared from the historical record, although the High Priests continued to be descended from Joshua), and thereafter there are merely general references to a Messiah of <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> (i.e. a descendant).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWanke1984182–183_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWanke1984182–183-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbertz2003&#91;httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXx9YzJq2B9wCpgPA130_130&#93;_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbertz2003[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidXx9YzJq2B9wCpgPA130_130]-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From these ideas, <a href="/wiki/Second_Temple_Judaism" title="Second Temple Judaism">Second Temple Judaism</a> would later emerge, whence <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism" title="Rabbinic Judaism">Rabbinic Judaism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Yahweh_and_the_rise_of_monotheism">Yahweh and the rise of monotheism</h2></div> <p>Although the specific process by which the Israelites adopted <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">monotheism</a> is unknown, the transition was a gradual one and was not totally accomplished during the First Temple period.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (April 2024)">page&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>It is unclear when the worship of Yahweh alone began. The earliest known portrayals of Yahweh as the principal deity to whom "one owed the powers of blessing the land" appear in the teachings of the prophet <a href="/wiki/Elijah" title="Elijah">Elijah</a> in the 9th century BCE. This form of worship was likely well established by the time of the prophet <a href="/wiki/Hosea" title="Hosea">Hosea</a> in the 8th century BCE, in reference to disputes between Yahweh and Baal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199461_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199461-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The early supporters of this faction are widely regarded as being <a href="/wiki/Monolatrism" class="mw-redirect" title="Monolatrism">monolatrists</a> rather than true <a href="/wiki/Monotheists" class="mw-redirect" title="Monotheists">monotheists</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEakin197170,_263_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEakin197170,_263-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The source is literally 50 years old. (April 2024)">needs update</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> they did not believe Yahweh was the only god in existence, but instead believed that he was the only god which the people of Israel should worship.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcKenzie19901287_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcKenzie19901287-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finally, in the national crisis of the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_captivity" title="Babylonian captivity">Babylonian exile</a>, the followers of Yahweh went a step further and outright denied that the other deities aside from Yahweh even existed, thus marking the transition from monolatrism to true monotheism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBetz2000917_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBetz2000917-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The notion that Yahweh is to be worshipped as the <a href="/wiki/Creator_god" class="mw-redirect" title="Creator god">creator-god</a> of all the earth is first elaborated by the <a href="/wiki/Deutero-Isaiah" class="mw-redirect" title="Deutero-Isaiah">Second Isaiah</a>, a <a href="/wiki/6th_century_BC" title="6th century BC">6th-century BCE</a> exilic work whose case for the theological doctrine rests on Yahweh's power over other gods,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosenberg1966297_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosenberg1966297-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The source is literally almost 60 years old. (August 2023)">needs update</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> and his incomparability and singleness relative to the gods of the Babylonian religion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbani2020226_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbani2020226-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research#Synthesis_of_published_material" title="Wikipedia:No original research"><span title="The material near this tag may be based upon an improper synthesis of sources. (April 2024)">improper synthesis?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Benjamin D. Sommer argues that the distinction between polytheism and monotheism has been greatly exaggerated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESommer2009145_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESommer2009145-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Worship">Worship</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Yahwism" title="Yahwism">Yahwism</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festivals_and_sacrifice">Festivals and sacrifice</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Feast_of_Wine" title="Feast of Wine">Feast of Wine</a></div> <p>The centre of Yahweh's worship lay in three great annual festivals coinciding with major events in rural life: <a href="/wiki/Passover" title="Passover">Passover</a> with the birthing of <a href="/wiki/Sheep" title="Sheep">lambs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shavuot" title="Shavuot">Shavuot</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Cereal" title="Cereal">cereal</a> <a href="/wiki/Harvest" title="Harvest">harvest</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sukkot" title="Sukkot">Sukkot</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Fruit" title="Fruit">fruit</a> harvest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199489_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199489-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These probably pre-dated the arrival of the Yahweh religion,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199489_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlbertz199489-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but they became linked to events in the <a href="/wiki/National_myth" title="National myth">national mythos</a> of Israel: Passover with <a href="/wiki/The_exodus" class="mw-redirect" title="The exodus">the exodus</a> from Egypt, Shavuot with the law-giving at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Sinai_(Bible)" title="Mount Sinai (Bible)">Mount Sinai</a>, and Sukkot with the <a href="/wiki/Wilderness" title="Wilderness">wilderness</a> wanderings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112_71-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The festivals thus celebrated Yahweh's <a href="/wiki/Salvation" title="Salvation">salvation</a> of Israel and Israel's status as his holy people, although the earlier agricultural meaning was not entirely lost.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorman2000458_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorman2000458-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His worship presumably involved sacrifice, but many scholars have concluded that the rituals detailed in <a href="/wiki/Leviticus" class="mw-redirect" title="Leviticus">Leviticus</a> 1–16, with their stress on purity and <a href="/wiki/Atonement_in_Judaism" title="Atonement in Judaism">atonement</a>, were introduced only after the <a href="/wiki/Babylonian_exile" class="mw-redirect" title="Babylonian exile">Babylonian exile</a>, and that in reality any head of a family was able to offer sacrifice as occasion demanded.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaviesRogerson2005151–152_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaviesRogerson2005151–152-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A number of scholars have also drawn the conclusion that <a href="/wiki/Infant_sacrifice" class="mw-redirect" title="Infant sacrifice">infant sacrifice</a>, whether to the underworld deity <a href="/wiki/Molech" class="mw-redirect" title="Molech">Molech</a> or to Yahweh himself, was a part of Israelite/Judahite religion until the reforms of <a href="/wiki/King_Josiah" class="mw-redirect" title="King Josiah">King Josiah</a> in the late 7th century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGnuse1997118_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGnuse1997118-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Sacrifice was presumably complemented by the singing or recital of <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Psalms">psalms</a>, but again the details are scant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDaviesRogerson2005158–165_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaviesRogerson2005158–165-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jewish_prayer" title="Jewish prayer">Prayer</a> played little role in official worship.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECohen1999302_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECohen1999302-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Temples">Temples</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="In the foreground, a bearded man dressed in an impressive white robe and head-dress raises his hand to heaven. Behind him, a large crowd bows in prayer." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg/220px-Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg/330px-Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg/440px-Tissot_Solomon_Dedicates_the_Temple_at_Jerusalem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="445" data-file-height="590" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Solomon" title="Solomon">Solomon</a> dedicates the <a href="/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem" title="Temple in Jerusalem">Temple at Jerusalem</a> (painting by <a href="/wiki/James_Tissot" title="James Tissot">James Tissot</a> or follower, c. 1896–1902).</figcaption></figure> <p>The Hebrew Bible gives the impression that the Jerusalem temple was always meant to be the central or even sole temple of Yahweh, but this was not the case.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112_71-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavies2010112-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The earliest known Israelite place of worship is a 12th-century BCE open-air altar in the hills of <a href="/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria">Samaria</a> featuring a bronze bull reminiscent of Canaanite <a href="/wiki/El_(deity)#Ugarit_and_the_Levant" title="El (deity)">Bull-El</a> (El in the form of a bull) and the archaeological remains of further temples have been found at <a href="/wiki/Dan_(ancient_city)" title="Dan (ancient city)">Dan</a> on Israel's northern border, at <a href="/wiki/Tel_Arad" title="Tel Arad">Arad</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Negev" title="Negev">Negev</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tel_Be%27er_Sheva" title="Tel Be&#39;er Sheva">Beersheba</a>, both in the territory of Judah.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDever2003a388_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDever2003a388-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Shiloh_(biblical_city)" title="Shiloh (biblical city)">Shiloh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bethel" title="Bethel">Bethel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gilgal" title="Gilgal">Gilgal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mizpah_in_Benjamin" title="Mizpah in Benjamin">Mizpah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramah_in_Benjamin" title="Ramah in Benjamin">Ramah</a> and Dan were also major sites for festivals, sacrifices, the making of <a href="/wiki/Vow#Divine_vows" title="Vow">vows</a>, private rituals, and the adjudication of legal disputes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBennett200283_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBennett200283-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portrayal">Portrayal</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Aniconism_in_Judaism" title="Aniconism in Judaism">Aniconism in Judaism</a></div> <p>Yahweh-worship was thought to be <a href="/wiki/Aniconic" class="mw-redirect" title="Aniconic">aniconic</a>, meaning that the god was not depicted by a statue or other image. This is not to say that he was not represented in some symbolic form, and early Israelite worship probably focused on <a href="/wiki/Baetylus" class="mw-redirect" title="Baetylus">standing stones</a>, but according to the Biblical texts the temple in Jerusalem featured Yahweh's throne in the form of two <a href="/wiki/Cherub" title="Cherub">cherubim</a>, their inner wings forming the seat and a box (the <a href="/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant" title="Ark of the Covenant">Ark of the Covenant</a>) as a footstool, while the throne itself was empty.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMettinger2006288–290_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMettinger2006288–290-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is no universally accepted explanation for such <a href="/wiki/Aniconism" title="Aniconism">aniconism</a>, and a number of scholars have argued that Yahweh was in fact represented prior to the reforms of <a href="/wiki/Hezekiah" title="Hezekiah">Hezekiah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Josiah" title="Josiah">Josiah</a> late in the monarchic period: to quote one study, "[a]n early aniconism, <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> or otherwise, is purely a projection of the post-exilic imagination".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacDonald200721,_26–27_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacDonald200721,_26–27-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other scholars argue that there is no certain evidence of any <a href="/wiki/Anthropomorphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Anthropomorphic">anthropomorphic</a> representation of Yahweh during the pre-exilic period.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020293–297_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020293–297-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Graeco-Roman_syncretism">Graeco-Roman syncretism</h2></div> <p>Yahweh is frequently invoked in <a href="/wiki/Graeco-Roman_magic" class="mw-redirect" title="Graeco-Roman magic">Graeco-Roman magical</a> texts dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE, most notably in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">Greek Magical Papyri</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBetz1996&#91;&#91;Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020&#93;&#93;&lt;sup_class=&quot;noprint_Inline-Template_&quot;_style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;i&gt;&#91;&#91;Wikipedia:Citing_sources&#124;&lt;span_title=&quot;This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&amp;#32;(August_2020)&quot;&gt;page&amp;nbsp;needed&lt;/span&gt;&#93;&#93;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/sup&gt;_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBetz1996[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]&lt;sup_class=&quot;noprint_Inline-Template_&quot;_style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;i&gt;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|&lt;span_title=&quot;This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&amp;#32;(August_2020)&quot;&gt;page&amp;nbsp;needed&lt;/span&gt;]]&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/sup&gt;-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> under the names <a href="/wiki/Tetragrammaton" title="Tetragrammaton">Iao</a>, <a href="/wiki/Adonai" class="mw-redirect" title="Adonai">Adonai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sabaoth" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabaoth">Sabaoth</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Elohim" title="Elohim">Eloai</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In these texts, he is often mentioned alongside traditional <a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures" title="List of Greek mythological figures">Graeco-Roman deities</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_deities" title="List of Egyptian deities">Egyptian deities</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Archangels" class="mw-redirect" title="Archangels">archangels</a> <a href="/wiki/Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Michael</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raphael_(archangel)" title="Raphael (archangel)">Raphael</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Uriel" title="Uriel">Ouriel</a> and Jewish <a href="/wiki/Cultural_hero" class="mw-redirect" title="Cultural hero">cultural heroes</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacob" title="Jacob">Jacob</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Moses" title="Moses">Moses</a> are also invoked frequently.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArnold1996&#91;&#91;Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020&#93;&#93;&lt;sup_class=&quot;noprint_Inline-Template_&quot;_style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;i&gt;&#91;&#91;Wikipedia:Citing_sources&#124;&lt;span_title=&quot;This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&amp;#32;(August_2020)&quot;&gt;page&amp;nbsp;needed&lt;/span&gt;&#93;&#93;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/sup&gt;_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArnold1996[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_August_2020]]&lt;sup_class=&quot;noprint_Inline-Template_&quot;_style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;i&gt;[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|&lt;span_title=&quot;This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears.&amp;#32;(August_2020)&quot;&gt;page&amp;nbsp;needed&lt;/span&gt;]]&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/sup&gt;-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The frequent occurrence of Yahweh's name was likely due to Greek and Roman folk magicians seeking to make their spells more powerful through the invocation of a prestigious foreign deity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A coin issued by <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> to celebrate his successful <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(63_BC)" title="Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC)">conquest of Judaea</a> showed a kneeling, bearded figure grasping a branch (a common Roman symbol of submission) subtitled <i>BACCHIVS IVDAEVS</i>, which may be translated as either "The Jewish <a href="/wiki/Bacchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bacchus">Bacchus</a>" or "Bacchus the Judaean". The figure has been interpreted as depicting Yahweh as a local variety of Bacchus, that is, <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScott2015169–172_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScott2015169–172-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, as coins minted with such iconography ordinarily depicted subjected persons, and not the gods of a subjected people, some have assumed the coin simply depicts the surrender of a Judean who was called "Bacchius", sometimes identified as the Hasmonean king <a href="/wiki/Aristobulus_II" title="Aristobulus II">Aristobulus II</a>, who was overthrown by Pompey's campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScott201511,_16,_80,_126_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScott201511,_16,_80,_126-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In any event, <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_the_Lydian" title="John the Lydian">John the Lydian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Labeo" title="Cornelius Labeo">Cornelius Labeo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Marcus Terentius Varro</a> similarly identify Yahweh with Bacchus–Dionysus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199988_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199988-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Jews themselves frequently used symbols that were also associated with Dionysus such as <a href="/wiki/Kylix" title="Kylix">kylixes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amphora" title="Amphora">amphorae</a>, leaves of <a href="/wiki/Ivy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivy">ivy</a>, and clusters of <a href="/wiki/Grapes" class="mw-redirect" title="Grapes">grapes</a>, a similarity <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> used to argue that Jews worshipped a <a href="/wiki/Hypostasis_(philosophy_and_religion)" title="Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)">hypostasized</a> form of Bacchus–Dionysus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996a233_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996a233-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In his <i><a href="/wiki/Moralia" title="Moralia">Quaestiones Convivales</a></i>, Plutarch further notes that the Jews hail their god with cries of "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euoi" class="extiw" title="wikt:euoi">Euoi</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Sabazios" title="Sabazios">Sabi</a>", phrases associated with the worship of Dionysus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPlutarchn.d.&#91;httpswwwperseustuftseduhoppertextdocurnctsgreekLittlg0007tlg112perseus-eng146_&quot;Question_VI&quot;&#93;_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPlutarchn.d.[httpswwwperseustuftseduhoppertextdocurnctsgreekLittlg0007tlg112perseus-eng146_&quot;Question_VI&quot;]-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199989_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199989-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996a232–233_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996a232–233-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Sean_M._McDonough" title="Sean M. McDonough">Sean M. McDonough</a>, Greek speakers may have confused <a href="/wiki/Aramaic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Aramaic language">Aramaic</a> words such as <a href="/wiki/Sabbath" title="Sabbath">Sabbath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alleluia" title="Alleluia">Alleluia</a>, or even possibly some variant of the name Yahweh itself, for more familiar terms associated with Dionysus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199989–90_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonough199989–90-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other Roman writers, such as <a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Florus" title="Florus">Florus</a>, identified Yahweh with the god <a href="/wiki/Caelus" title="Caelus">Caelus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output 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.reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-name-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-name_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/j/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;yes&#39;">j</span><span title="/ɑː/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;father&#39;">ɑː</span><span title="/hw/: &#39;wh&#39; in &#39;why&#39;">hw</span><span title="/eɪ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;face&#39;">eɪ</span></span>/</a></span></span>, or often <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/j/: &#39;y&#39; in &#39;yes&#39;">j</span><span title="/ɑː/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;father&#39;">ɑː</span><span title="&#39;w&#39; in &#39;wind&#39;">w</span><span title="/eɪ/: &#39;a&#39; in &#39;face&#39;">eɪ</span></span>/</a></span></span> in English; ‬𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 in <a href="/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_alphabet" title="Paleo-Hebrew alphabet">Paleo-Hebrew</a>; <a href="/wiki/Tetragrammaton#Yahweh" title="Tetragrammaton">reconstructed</a> in block script: <span lang="he" dir="rtl"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095"><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">*יַהְוֶה</span>&#8206;</span> *<i>Yahwe</i>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="he-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Hebrew" title="Help:IPA/Hebrew">&#91;jahˈwe&#93;</a></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSommer2009">Sommer 2009</a>, p. 145: "It is a commonplace of modern biblical scholarship that Israelite religion prior to the Babylonian exile was basically polytheistic. [...] Many scholars argue that ancient Israelites worshipped a plethora of gods and goddesses [...]."</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEEdelman1995190-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEdelman1995190_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFEdelman1995">Edelman 1995</a>, p.&#160;190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStavrakopoulou2021411–412,_742-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStavrakopoulou2021411–412,_742_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStavrakopoulou2021">Stavrakopoulou 2021</a>, pp.&#160;411–412, 742.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPyschny202126–27-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPyschny202126–27_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPyschny2021">Pyschny 2021</a>, pp.&#160;26–27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMillerHayes1986110-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMillerHayes1986110_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMillerHayes1986">Miller &amp; Hayes 1986</a>, p.&#160;110.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehr199554-55-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehr199554-55_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehr1995">Niehr 1995</a>, p.&#160;54-55.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFleming20203-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFleming20203_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFleming20203_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFleming2020">Fleming 2020</a>, p.&#160;3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201742-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201742_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201742_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2017">Smith 2017</a>, p.&#160;42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller20001-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller20001_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMiller2000">Miller 2000</a>, p.&#160;1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–59-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHackett2001158–59_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHackett2001">Hackett 2001</a>, pp.&#160;158–59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20027-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20027_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2002">Smith 2002</a>, p.&#160;7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_33–34_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2002">Smith 2002</a>, pp.&#160;8, 33–34.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020222-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020222_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLewis2020">Lewis 2020</a>, p.&#160;222.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197396–97-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197396–97_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCross1973">Cross 1973</a>, pp.&#160;96–97.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECornell202118-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornell202118_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCornell2021">Cornell 2021</a>, p.&#160;18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_135-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith20028,_135_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2002">Smith 2002</a>, pp.&#160;8, 135.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith201738-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201738_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith201738_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmith2017">Smith 2017</a>, p.&#160;38.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECornell202120-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECornell202120_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCornell2021">Cornell 2021</a>, p.&#160;20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200259–60_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLeech2002">Leech 2002</a>, pp.&#160;59–60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELeech200260-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELeech200260_21-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLeech2002">Leech 2002</a>, p.&#160;60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmithCohen1996b242–256_22-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSmithCohen1996b">Smith &amp; Cohen 1996b</a>, pp.&#160;242–256.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAlter2018">Alter 2018</a>: "The strong consensus of biblical scholarship is that the original pronunciation of the name YHWH&#160;... was Yahweh."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreuss2008823-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreuss2008823_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPreuss2008">Preuss 2008</a>, p.&#160;823.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFElior2006">Elior 2006</a>, p.&#160;779: "...&#160;the pronunciation of the Ineffable Name was one of the climaxes of the Sacred Service: it was entrusted exclusively to the High Priest once a year on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKingStager2001xxiii-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKingStager2001xxiii_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKingStager2001">King &amp; Stager 2001</a>, p.&#160;xxiii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0203.htm#14">Exodus 3:14</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEParke-Taylor197551-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEParke-Taylor197551_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFParke-Taylor1975">Parke-Taylor 1975</a>, p.&#160;51.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020214-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020214_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLewis2020">Lewis 2020</a>, p.&#160;214.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller_II202118-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller_II202118_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMiller_II2021">Miller II 2021</a>, p.&#160;18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKitz201942,_57-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKitz201942,_57_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKitz2019">Kitz 2019</a>, pp.&#160;42, 57.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2020211,_215-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis2020211,_215_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLewis2020">Lewis 2020</a>, pp.&#160;211, 215.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197361–63-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197361–63_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCross1973">Cross 1973</a>, pp.&#160;61–63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFleming2020">Fleming 2020</a>, p.&#160;176: "There has been one key objection, by Michael Streck, who reevaluated Amorite personal names as a whole in 2000 and as part of this work published the separate conclusion (1999) that all the <i>Ya-wi-</i> and <i>Ya-aḫ-wi-</i> elements in these names must be understood to reflect the same root <i>ḥwy</i>, "to live"....If Streck is correct that these are all forms of the verb "to live", then the Amorite personal names must be set aside as useful to any interpretation of the name [Yahweh]." But see <a href="#CITEREFFleming2020b">Fleming 2020b</a>, p.&#160;425: "While the identification of the verbal root in the Amorite names with and without the -<i>ḫ</i>- remains impossible to prove with certainty, the parallels with contemporary Old Babylonian Ibašši-DN and the later second-millennium parallels from the verb <i>kwn</i> show the viability of a West Semitic root <i>hwy</i>, "to be, be evident", for at least some portion of these Amorite names."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHyatt1967" class="citation journal cs1">Hyatt, J. 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class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMiller2000">Miller 2000</a>, p.&#160;2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECross197371-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross197371_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCross1973">Cross 1973</a>, p.&#160;71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDay200213–14-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDay200213–14_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDay2002">Day 2002</a>, pp.&#160;13–14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShalomi_Hen2021-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShalomi_Hen2021_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShalomi_Hen2021">Shalomi Hen 2021</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015100-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson2015100_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFAnderson2015">Anderson 2015</a>, p.&#160;100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007151-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007151_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGrabbe2007">Grabbe 2007</a>, p.&#160;151.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShalomi_Hen2021">Shalomi Hen 2021</a>: "Unfortunately, albeit the interesting analogies, the learned discussions, and the broad perspective, the evidence is too scanty to allow any conclusions concerning the exact meaning of the term YHWA/YHA/YH as it appears in Ancient Egyptian records."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007153-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrabbe2007153_44-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGrabbe2007">Grabbe 2007</a>, p.&#160;153.</span> 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Labor et Fides. p.&#160;257. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-8309-1253-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-8309-1253-1"><bdi>978-2-8309-1253-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=La+fraternit%C3%A9+de+Jacob+et+d%27Esa%C3%BC+%28Gn+25%E2%80%9336%29%3A+quel+fr%C3%A8re+a%C3%AEn%C3%A9+pour+Jacob%3F&amp;rft.pages=257&amp;rft.pub=Labor+et+Fides&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-2-8309-1253-1&amp;rft.aulast=Manyanya&amp;rft.aufirst=L%C3%A9vi+Ngangura&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkiR_xkWUFS4C%26pg%3DPA258&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AYahweh" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">E. A. Knauf. (1999). Qos [in] Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst [eds.], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yCkRz5pfxz0C&amp;pg=PA677"><i>Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible</i></a>, pp. 674–677. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing: "This clan or family must have been of Edomite or Idumaean origin." (p. 677).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Elie Assis, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_jQLEAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA10"><i>Identity in Conflict: The Struggle between Esau and Jacob, Edom and Israel</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Penn_State_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn State Press">Penn State Press</a>, 2016 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-575-06418-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-575-06418-5">978-1-575-06418-5</a> p.10: At 1 Kgs 1–8 there is exceptionally no mention of any Edomite gods:'King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of the Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. ... 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(2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/7231">"Toward a new synthesis of the god of Edom and Yaheweh"</a>. <i>Antiguo Oriente</i>. <b>7</b>. 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