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Yahweh and the rise of monotheism. 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 Elijah in the 9th century BCE.
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Who is Yahweh – How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism. How did a warrior-storm god become Yahweh, the god of world Abrahamic monotheism? By tracing the earliest history of Yahweh (“The One Exists”) to his origins in the area around Mt Seir to his immigration during the Bronze Age Collapse to the ...
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Yahweh was originally the national god of the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. During the 8th century BCE, the worship of Yahweh in Israel was in competition with many other cults, described by the Yahwist faction collectively as Baals.
By the end of the Babylonian captivity, Yahwism began turning away from polytheism (or, by some accounts, Yahweh-centric monolatry) and transitioned towards monotheism, where Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator deity and the only entity worthy of worship. [10] .
According to traditional interpretations of the Bible, monotheism was part of Israel's original covenant with Yahweh on Mount Sinai, and the idolatry subsequently criticized by the prophets was due to Israel's backsliding from its own heritage and history with Yahweh.
The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium XCI) De Moor studies Yahwism and Israel in the second millennium bc. In order to argue for the presence of Yahweh worship at that time, de Moor turns to personal names found in ancient Israel.
Yahweh of Canaan. Archaeology and a careful reading of the biblical texts confirm what we in some sense already know intuitively: that monotheism in the Near East did not emerge in a vacuum. Though Beersheba, Sinai, Golgotha, and Mecca are now considered important milestones in an evolution from polytheism to monotheism, none occurred in isolation.
