Yahwism

, Jahwism, Yahvism, Jahvism

the use of the name Yahweh, esp in parts of the Old Testament, as the personal name of God

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Can it be that those peoples and societies that stand outside Yahwism, the majority of humanity past and present, not only are less capable of ethical existence on Earth than their Yawhist neighbors, but are, in fact, doomed to an eternity of torture for their inability or unwillingness to embrace the capricious demands of the God of Abraham?

Indeed, does Yahwism offer us anything at all in the way of ethics?

Reexamining the creator: what do religious texts really teach us about God?

Before that, he says, Yahwism was monolatrous--worshiping one deity without denying the existence of others.

The birth of monotheism; the rise and disappearance of Yahwism

the official theology of king and temple, the theology of resistance groups, and in between various accommodations to traditional Yahwism and court/temple religion.

A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period, vol. 1: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy

It flies in the face of the cherished tenet of modern scholarship which holds that Israelite Yahwism rather than Zoroastrianism broke with the static worldview of ancient myth and introduced the linear and teleological concepts of history which are foundational to Western culture.

Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith

piqued my interest by contrasting the religion of the Patriarchs ("ecumenical bonhommie," open, unstructured and nongeographical) with Mosaic Yahwism (sectarian exclusiveness with regard to sacred place, moral and cultic content, marriage, leadership) (99).

The Old Testament of the Old Testament: Patriarchal Narratives and Mosaic Yahwism

The Torah describes a monotheistic and aniconic Yahwism centered on a magnificent temple in Jerusalem battling backsliders into polytheistic Canaanite idolatry, while in contrast archaeology has revealed religious establishments outside the capital (e.

Regionaler Kult und lokaler Kult: Studien zur Kult - und Religionsgeschichte Israels und Judas im 9. und 8 Jahrhundert v. Chr

62) In Weinfeld's view, then, the authors of Deuteronomy, while devoted to their particular brand of Yahwism, were willing to see a number of social and governmental activities deprived of their religious elements and consequently imbued with a more secular character.

The cultic versus the forensic: Judahite and Mesopotamian judicial procedures in the first millennium B.C.E

The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism is a study that reacts to minimalist historians of the Bible in general and more specifically to views that Yahwism was a late development.

The Social Roots of Biblical Yahwism

40] One of the major contentions in Weep, O Daughter of Zion was that certain changes (including the use of Israelite themes, motifs, and imagery and of poetic techniques and devices characteristic of Hebrew canons of poetry, as well as other adaptations required by the monotheizing Yahwism of Israel and Judah) could be expected in the city-lament genre as it was transmitted to Israel and Judah, and t his in fact turns out to be what can be observed from later, better documented historical periods.

Darwinism, Genre Theory, and City Laments

While Yahwism was older than Moses, it was Moses who prevented this creed from merging completely with Baalism at the end of Late Bronze Age.

The Rise of Yahwism: The Roots of Israelite Monotheism

Second, running through much of Albertz' study is a sociological dichotomy drawn between an early egalitarian Yahwistic group opposed to domination and later distorters of this sort of Yahwism, such as the monarchy.