INVESTIGADORES
TEBES Juan Manuel
artículos
Título:
Yahweh's Desert Origins
Autor/es:
JUAN MANUEL TEBES
Revista:
Biblical Archaeology Review
Editorial:
Biblical Archaeology Society
Referencias:
Lugar: Washington DC; Año: 2022 vol. 2022 p. 32 - 41
ISSN:
0098-9444
Resumen:
We all know that Yahweh was, first and foremost, ancient Israel´s God. Yet, even after hundreds of years of archaeology and biblical scholarship, we know very little about his origins - and how he came to be worshiped by the peoples of Israel and Judah. Scholars have searched for the name Yahweh in ancient West Semitic texts, especially those found at Ebla, Mari, and Ugarit, but no evidence of pre-Israelite Yahweh worship among the peoples of the ancient Levant has surfaced. If Yahweh wasn´t originally a Levantine deity, where did he come from, and when exactly did he become the national God of Israel?
