Information on this title: : 10.1017/9781108875479 © Cambridge University Press 2021 This publication is in copyright. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, 3207, Australia 314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06–04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. Yahweh before Israel Glimpses of History in a Divine Name Along with other books and numerous articles, he is the author of Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance and The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Rather, this divine name is evidence for the diverse background of Israel itself. Fleming argues in contrast that Yahweh was not taken from outsiders. For 150 years, the dominant paradigm for Yahweh’s origin has envisioned borrowing from peoples of the desert south of Israel. In his analysis, the Bible’s “people of Yahweh” serve as a clue to how one of the Bronze Age herding peoples of the inland Levant gave its name to a deity, initially outside of any relationship to Israel. This is the starting point for Daniel Fleming’s sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. As a deity, the name appears only in connection with the peoples of the Hebrew Bible, but long before Israel, the name is found in an Egyptian list as one group in the land of tent-dwellers, the Shasu. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. The People Defined by Yahweh and Yahweh Defined by a People The People of Yahweh Apart from Israel: Judges 5:13 Shortened Personal Names and Names for Peoples The Contemporary Midianite Hypothesis and Moses Ramses II and Seir: Reinterpretation of the Shasuģ The Midianite Hypothesis: Moses and the Priestįriedrich Wilhelm Ghillany (Richard von der Alm, 1807-1876)Įduard Meyer (1855-1930) and Hugo Gressmann (1877-1927)
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