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Named After Which God?

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From the time of the Exodus on, Israelite personal names that incorporated the name of the God YHWH were far more popular than those mentioning pagan deities. The numbers shown here are based only on names in the Bible. The extrabiblical evidence (not included here) is slightly stronger: 94% of the theophoric names known from inscriptions are Yahwistic, as opposed to 91% in the Bible.

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