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Who is Yahweh? - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism (youtu.be)

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Covers the best guesses current scholarship and archæology gives about the origin of Yahweh following the Bronze Age Collapse.

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[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's an interesting topic! I havent had a chance to watch this yet.

But the topic is one covered in The Bible Unearthed, a book that describes archaeological evidence of bronze age Judah contradicting historical claims made in the first seven books of the Bible.

The book talks about how a particular king used an official state religion to unify the north and south regions, replacing polytheism with monotheism and basically borrowing and mashing up a couple of the many gods being worshipped at the time and compiling religious myths, traditions, etc. into what is now the first books of the bible.