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5 unusual facts about Yahweh


Charles Fox Burney

In “Israel’s settlement in Canaan”, he brought much new or newly applied material especially from Babylonian sources to explain Israel’s early residence in Canaan, and a major contribution was the theory that Yahweh (Jehovah) was at an early period an Amorite deity.

Covenant theology

The Lord proclaims that he will build a house and lineage for David, establishing his kingdom and throne forever.

Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission as stated by the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland is to imbue all students with a love of God, Torah and Eretz Yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in Torah as well as general knowledge.

Henry Clifford Kinley

The illustrations and book document his belief that Yahweh-Elohim is the archetype pattern by which every aspect of life, law and matter can be explained and verified.

Yahweh

One longstanding hypothesis is that Yahweh originated as a warrior-god in the region of Edom and Midian, south of Judah, and was introduced into the northern and central highlands by southern tribes such as the Kenites; Karel van der Toorn has suggested that his rise to prominence in Israel was due to the influence of Saul, Israel's first king, who was of Edomite background.


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Adi-Buddha

Adi-Buddha is better compared to the abstracted forces of Brahman, Ayn Sof or Arche rather than a personal creator God in the mold of Yahweh or Allah.

Archon

The Old Testament title God of Hosts was thought a proper name, hence Jupiter Sabbas (Yahweh Sabaoth).

Assemblies of Yahweh

The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania.

Book of Ezekiel

As a priest, Ezekiel is fundamentally concerned with the Kavod Yahweh, a technical phrase meaning the presence of Yahweh (i.e., the God of Israel) among the people, in the Tabernacle, and in the Temple, and normally translated as "glory of God".

Jerusalem Bible

In 2007, at the behest of Pope Benedict XVI, the use of the name 'Yahweh' was dropped from Catholic Bibles, most notably the new CTS Catholic Bible, which uses the Jerusalem text (see below).

Kairos Document

The Bible is commonly understood as a message of hope in the face of oppression; Yahweh will liberate the people (e.g. Ps 74, Ex 3, Ps 12).

Philo's view of God

In many ways, one can consider this view of God to be different from the God of the Hebrew Bible, with more affinity for the idea or "form" (eidos) of Plato designated as Θεός (Theos), in contrast to matter.

Sacred Name Movement

The Movement started with the formation of the Assembly of Yahweh in Holt, Michigan, USA in the early 1930s.

The Early History of God

The history of the emergence of Judaism and monotheism has been the subject of study since at least the 19th century and Julius Wellhausen's Prolegomena to the History of Israel; in the 20th century a work was William F. Albright's Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan (1968), which insisted on the essential otherness of Yahweh from the Canaanite gods from the very beginning of Israel's history.

To Reign in Hell

From the illiaster came consciousness that resulted in the firstborn angels: Yaweh, Satan, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Leviathan and Belial.

Tribe of Judah

The Tribe of Judah, its conquests, and the centrality of its capital in Jerusalem for the worship of the one true God, Yahweh, figure prominently in the Deuteronomistic history, encompassing the books of Deuteronomy through II Kings, which most scholars agree was reduced to written form, although subject to exilic and post-exilic alterations and emendations, during the reign of the Judahist reformer Josiah from 641-609 BCE.

Yah

Jah, shortened form of the divine name YHWH (also spelled Jehovah or Yahweh)


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