The Tetragrammaton in Egyptian Sources – Facts and Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. The Divine Name *Yahwa 1
5. YHWH’s Original Character: Questions about an Unknown God 23
6. The Beginnings of Yahwism from an Assyriological Perspective 45
7. The Origins and Beginnings of the Worship of YHWH: The Iconographic Evidence 67
8. The Tetragrammaton in Egyptian Sources – Facts and Fiction 93
9. The Origin of YHWH and its Attestation 115
10. Three Theses on the Early History of Israel 145
11. YHWH’s Provenance from the South A New Evaluation of the Arguments pro and contra 157
12. “I am YHWH your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt” (Exod 20:2) Reflections on the Status of the Exodus Creed in the History of Israel and the Literary History of the Hebrew Bible 181
13. The Origins of YHWH in Light of the Earliest Psalms 207
14. God and the Gods in the Tetrateuch 239
15. The Origins of Yahwism from the Perspective of Deuteronomism 267
16. The Beginnings of YHWH and “Longing for the Origin” A historico-hermeneutical query 283
17. Bibliography 309
18. Authors 341
19. Index of Modern Authors 343
20. Index of Subjects and Names 349
21. Index of Ancient Sources 355