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Yahwism, as it is called by modern scholars, was the religion of ancient Israel and Judah. [1] An ancient Semitic religion of the Iron Age, Yahwism was essentially polytheistic and had a pantheon, with various gods and goddesses being worshipped by the Israelites. [2]
Jan 4, 2022 · Anyone who calls God by a name other than “Yahweh” (such as “God”) or who accepts the oral tradition of the Jews is not a True Israelite and has bought into a false religion. According to Yahwism, Christianity and most versions of Judaism are false religions.
Pagan Yahwism: The Folk Religion of Ancient Israel. The Bible imagines the religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists.
Yahweh[a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [4] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions.
Jun 28, 2022 · Yahweh worship can be traced back all the way to the ancient religion of Canaan. In the northwestern Semitic language spoken there, “El” had multiple meanings: It was the word for “god,” the name...
Aug 26, 2022 · This new set of beliefs, regarding the special relationship of a single God to the Hebrews, is referred to historically as the Yahwist religion. It was not yet "Judaism," since it did not yet disavow the belief that other gods might exist, nor did it include all of the rituals and traditions associated with later Judaism.
Yahwist source, abbreviated as J (labeled J after the German transliteration of YHWH), an early source that provides a strand of the Pentateuchal narrative. The Yahwist strand is represented in Genesis 2–16, 18–22, 24–34, 38, and 49; Exodus 1–24, 32, and 34; Numbers 11–12, 14, and 20–25; and Judges 1.
