The Origins of Yahwism

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Divine Name *Yahwa
YHWH’s Original Character: Questions about an Unknown God
The Beginnings of Yahwism from an Assyriological Perspective
The Origins and Beginnings of the Worship of YHWH: The Iconographic Evidence
The Tetragrammaton in Egyptian Sources – Facts and Fiction
The Origin of YHWH and its Attestation
Three Theses on the Early History of Israel
YHWH’s Provenance from the South A New Evaluation of the Arguments pro and contra
“I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt” (Exod 20:2) Reflections on the Status of the Exodus Creed in the History of Israel and the Literary History of the Hebrew Bible
The Origins of YHWH in Light of the Earliest Psalms
God and the Gods in the Tetrateuch
The Origins of Yahwism from the Perspective of Deuteronomism
The Beginnings of YHWH and “Longing for the Origin” A historico-hermeneutical query
Bibliography
Authors
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects and Names
Index of Ancient Sources