Yahweh before Israel
Glimpses of History in a Divine Name
$208.04
- Hardcover
340 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2020
Summary
Yahweh is the proper name of the biblical God. His early character is central to understanding the foundations of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic monotheism. 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. This is the starting-point for Daniel E. Fleming’s sharply new approach to the god Yahweh. In his analysis, the Bible’s ‘people of Yahweh’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108835077 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108835074 |
| Author: | Daniel E. Fleming |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 340 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 660g |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 235mm x 25mm |
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‘Fleming’s thesis certainly strikes out on its own within debate about the Midianite hypothesis and the origins of Yahweh, but I think it often makes more judicious and careful use of the data, particularly in its interrogation of the Egyptian inscriptions at Soleb and ‘Amarah West. There is a degree of speculation involved that is inevitable with trying to take steps into the dark … but I would argue Fleming’s volume asks more interesting questions that have the potential to contribute to a more robust and productive engagement with what few data are available to us.’ Daniel O. McClellan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
About The Author
Daniel E. Fleming
Daniel E. Fleming is Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Along with other books and numerous articles, he is the author of Democracy’s Ancient Ancestors: Mari and Early Collective Governance (Cambridge, 2004) and The Legacy of Israel in Judah’s Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing of Tradition (Cambridge, 2012).
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