Biblical Archaeology Review

Biblical Archaeology Review is the flagship publication of the Biblical Archaeology Society. For more than 40 years it has been making the world of archaeology in the lands of the Bible come alive for the interested layperson. Full of vivid images and articles written by leading scholars, this is a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of the ancient Near East.

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This text seems to promote the political interests of the Northern Kingdom during its expansion in the ninth century BCE, when we find inscriptional references to “Yahweh of Teman” at Kuntillet ‘Ajrud. See Michael J. Stahl, The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 52–144.

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For further discussion, see Michael J. Stahl, “God’s Best ‘Frenemy’: A New Perspective on YHWH and Baal in Ancient Israel and Judah,” Semitica 63 (2021), pp. 45–94.

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There are no references to the god Yahweh, or personal or place names with the divine element Yahweh, in Late Bronze Age sources or early alphabetic texts from the early Iron Age. The name yhw in Egyptian topographical texts from Amara West and Soleb does not refer to a deity but a people group, the name of which cannot be clearly linked to the god Yahweh.

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