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Yahweh and the rise of monotheism. Although the specific process by which the Israelites adopted monotheism is unknown, it is certain that the transition was a gradual one and was not totally accomplished during the First Temple period. [page needed] It is unclear when the worship of Yahweh alone began.
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Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] A distinction may be made between exclusive monotheism, in which the one God is a singular existence, and both inclusive and pluriform monotheism, in which multiple gods or godly forms are recognized, but each are postulated as extensions of the same God.
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Mar 3, 2023 · 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 ...
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.
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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. [11] .
Nov 1, 2005 · If these considerations are correct, then the characteristics of Yahweh that eventually led Israel to assert that Yahweh is the only God were his creation of heaven and earth, his power and greatness, and his right to exclusive worship. Parallel developments occurred elsewhere.
