Yahweh And The Origins Of Ancient Israel

Author : Nissim Amzallag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009314787

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Yahweh and the Origins of Ancient Israel by Nissim Amzallag Pdf

In this book, Nissim Amzallag offers new perspectives on the birth of ancient Israel by combining recent archaeological discoveries with a new approach to ancient Yahwism. He investigates the renewal of the copper industry in the Early Iron Age Levant and its influence on the rise of new nations, and also explores the recently identified metallurgical context of ancient Yahwism in the Bible. By merging these two branches of evidence, Amzallag proposes that the roots of YHWH are found in a powerful deity who sponsored the emancipation movement that freed Israel from the Amorite/Egyptian hegemony. Amzallag identifies the early Israelite religion as an attempt to transform the esoteric traditions of Levantine metalworkers into the public worship of YHWH. These unusual origins provide insight into many of the unique aspects of Israelite theology that ultimately spurred the evolution towards monotheism. His volume also casts new light on the mysterious smelting-god, the figure around which many Bronze Age religions revolved.

Author : Gérard Nissim Amzallag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1009314750

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Yahweh and the Origins of Ancient Israel by Gérard Nissim Amzallag Pdf

In this book, Nissim Amzallag offers new perspectives on the birth of ancient Israel by combining recent archaeological discoveries with a new approach to ancient Yahwism. He investigates the renewal of the copper industry in the Early Iron Age Levant and its influence on the rise of new nations, and also explores the recently identified metallurgical context of ancient Yahwism in the Bible. By merging these two branches of evidence, Amzallag proposes that the roots of YHWH are found in a powerful deity who sponsored the emancipation movement that freed Israel from the Amorite/Egyptian hegemony. Amzallag identifies the early Israelite religion as an attempt to transform the esoteric traditions of Levantine metalworkers into the public worship of YHWH. These unusual origins provide insight into many of the unique aspects of Israelite theology that ultimately spurred the evolution towards monotheism. His volume also casts new light on the mysterious smelting-god, the figure around which many Bronze Age religions revolved.

Author : Jürgen van Oorschot,Markus Witte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110447118

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The Origins of Yahwism by Jürgen van Oorschot,Markus Witte Pdf

This compendium examines the origins of the God Yahweh, his place in the Syrian-Palestinian and Northern Arabian pantheon during the bronze and iron ages, and the beginnings of the cultic veneration of Yahweh. Contributors analyze the epigraphic and archeological evidence, apply fundamental considerations from the cultural and religious sciences, and analyze the relevant Old Testament texts.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 080283972X

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The Early History of God by Mark S. Smith Pdf

There is still much disagreement over the origins and development of Israelite religion. Mark Smith sets himself the task of reconstructing the cult of Yahweh, the most important deity in Israel's early religion, and tracing the transformation of that deity into the sole god - the development of monotheism.

Author : Norman Gottwald
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841270265

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Tribes of Yahweh by Norman Gottwald Pdf

A twentieth-anniversary reprint of the landmark book that launched the current explosion of social-scientific studies in the biblical field. It sets forth a cultural-material methodology for reconstructing the origins of ancient Israel and offers the hypothesis that Israel emerged as an indigenous social revolutionary peasant movement. In a new preface, written for this edition, Gottwald takes account of the 'sea change' in biblical studies since 1979 as he reviews the impact of his work on church and academy, assesses its merits and limitations, indicates his present thinking on the subject, and points toward future directions in the social-critical study of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible.

Author : Theodore J. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1097 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190072544

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The Origin and Character of God by Theodore J. Lewis Pdf

Introductory Matters -- The History of Scholarship on Ancient Israelite Religion : A Brief Sketch -- Methodology -- El Worship -- The Iconography of Divinity : El -- The Origin of Yahweh -- The Iconography of Divinity : Yahweh -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Warrior and Family God -- The Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as King and Yahweh as Judge -- Characterization of the Deity Yahweh : Yahweh as Holy.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451413971

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The Memoirs of God by Mark S. Smith Pdf

This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all this are the ways in which ancient Israel was shaped by the monarchy, the Babylonian exile, and the dispersions of Judeans and the ways in which Israel conceptualized and interacted with the divine-Yahweh as well as other deities.

Author : Bernd U. Schipper
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646020270

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A Concise History of Ancient Israel by Bernd U. Schipper Pdf

The history of biblical Israel, as it is told in the Hebrew Bible, differs substantially from the history of ancient Israel as it can be reconstructed using ancient Near Eastern texts and archaeological evidence. In A Concise History of Ancient Israel, Bernd U. Schipper uses this evidence to present a critical revision of the history of Israel and Judah from the late second millennium BCE to the beginning of the Roman period. Considering archaeological material as well as biblical and extrabiblical texts, Schipper argues that the history of “Israel” in the preexilic period took place mostly in the hinterland of the Levant and should be understood in the context of the Neo-Assyrian expansion. He demonstrates that events in the exilic and postexilic periods also played out differently than they are recounted in the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah. In contrast to previous scholarship, which focused heavily on Israel’s origins and the monarchic period, Schipper’s history gives equal attention to the Persian and early Hellenistic periods, providing confirmation that a wide variety of forms of YHWH religion existed in the Persian period and persisted into the Hellenistic age. Original and innovative, this brief history provides a new outline of the historical development of ancient Israel that will appeal to students, scholars, and lay readers who desire a concise overview.

Author : Stephen L. Cook
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589830981

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The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism by Stephen L. Cook Pdf

"Sure to provoke discussion and debate as it offers a unique approach to some old and perplexing issues in the history of ancient Israel and its religion, Cook's study is a bold new proposal for synthesizing the social history of Israel's religious traditions. Among the many "Yahwisms" coexisting in ancient Israel was an initially small minority stream of theological tradition composed of geographically and socially diverse groups in northern and southern Israel. These groups shared a religious commitment to a covenantal, village-based, land-oriented Yahwism that arose before the emergence of Israelite kingship. It eventually rose to dominance, and its theology provided robust resources for dealing with the Babylonian exile. It thus came to occupy a prominent place in the present canon of the Hebrew Bible. Cook combines detailed study of biblical texts with a carefully constructed social-scientific method and body of data to argue for the early origins of biblical Yahwism. This book is written to be accessible to lay readers and also of significant interest to Hebrew Bible students and specialists." -- ‡c From publisher's description.

Author : Robert D. Miller II
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647540863

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Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God by Robert D. Miller II Pdf

Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other than the Israelite people. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible, with an exhaustive survey of ancient Near Eastern literature and inscriptions discovered by archaeology, and using anthropology to reconstruct religious practices and beliefs of ancient Edom and Midian, this study proposes an answer. Yahweh-worshiping Midianites of the Early Iron Age brought their deity along with metallurgy into ancient Palestine and the Israelite people.

Author : Daniel E. Fleming
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108835077

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Yahweh before Israel by Daniel E. Fleming Pdf

Provides a ground-breaking new interpretation with which to consider and contextualize the name Yahweh before its relationship with Israel.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015017941702

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The Early History of God by Mark S. Smith Pdf

In this history of the development of monotheism, the author explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheism with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional scholarly premise that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, he shows that the two cultures were fundamentally similar.

Author : James Maxwell Miller
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 066421262X

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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah by James Maxwell Miller Pdf

A significant achievement, this book moves our understanding of the history of Israel forward as dramatically as John Bright's A History of Israel, Martin Noth's History of Israel, and William F. Albright's From the Stone Age ot Cristianity did at an earlier period.

Author : Thomas L. Thompson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850750833

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The Origin Tradition of Ancient Israel by Thomas L. Thompson Pdf

Author : William G. Dever
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802863942

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Did God Have a Wife? by William G. Dever Pdf

This richly illustrated, non-technical reconstruction of "folk religion" in ancient Israel is based largely on recent archaeological evidence, but also incorporates biblical texts where possible.