Did Israel Invent Yahweh?
El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…onally designated J, E, D and P. The supposed Elohist source, E, was named for its use of Elohim before the revelation of the name Yahweh. The second is the southern-origin hypothesis, which proposes that Yahweh was originally worshipped somewhere south of Canaan and subsequently…
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