How did a warrior-storm god become Yahweh, the god of world Abrahamic monotheism? By tracing the earliest history of Yahweh ("The One Exists") to his origins in the area around Mt Seir to his immigration during the Bronze Age Collapse to the Judea Highlands around Shiloh, this episode explores the early history of the Israelite God. How did Yahweh and his Yahwism transform in theater of Canaanite religion - dominated by El, Ba'al, Asherah, Anat and other myth figures? What aspects of local religion did the Yahwists assimilate, reject and contend over in that process? This episode explore the early history of Yahweh and the rise of Yahweh henotheism/monolatry and primitive monotheism.

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The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel - https://amzn.to/4e6Bdo7
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts - https://amzn.to/3KJuD9X
Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic - https://amzn.to/4549Net
Beyond the Texts: An Archaeological Portrait of Ancient Israel and Judah - https://amzn.to/3X68eek
Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan - https://amzn.to/3x86I0p
God: An Anatomy - https://amzn.to/3VoQRD5
The Origin and Character of God - https://amzn.to/3V2agcx
The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches - https://amzn.to/4e0cLVB
Documents of Judean Exiles and West Semites in Babylonia in the Collection of David Sofer - https://amzn.to/4e0v1Ox
Judeans in Babylonia A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE - https://amzn.to/3V6dSdv
Yahweh before Israel - https://amzn.to/3X3mUuE
No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel - https://amzn.to/3wXfDSp