Dan presents four books:
- Robert D. Miller II, YHWH: Origin of a Desert God, 2021,
- Jürgen van Oorschot, Markus Witte (Eds), The Origins of Yahwism, 2017,1
- Theodore J. Lewis, The Origin and Character of GOD. Ancient Israelite Religion Through the Lens of Divinity, 2020,
- Daniel E. Fleming, Yahweh before Israel. Glimpses of History in a Divine Name, 2021.
in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 90, Issue 3, September 2022, pp.738–46:
1 Here's one full essay from those therein:Extract
Significant archaeological discoveries over the last century have given biblical scholars plenty of grist for the mill that is the theoretical reconstruction of the origins and earliest profile(s) of Israel’s patron deity, Yahweh. The Ugaritic texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ketef Hinnom silver scrolls, temples discovered at Arad and Tel Motza, inscriptions from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and Khirbet el-Qôm, an expanding collection of ancient personal names, and numerous other discoveries have contributed to a rough consensus regarding a number of issues that would have been unthinkable in previous centuries, such as Yahweh’s original distinction from the northwest Semitic high deity El, Yahweh’s early consort, Asherah, and the exilic or post-exilic advent of monotheism (at the earliest). Each of these issues, however, has raised a suite of additional questions, and the field’s theoretical and methodological repertoires have struggled to keep pace. Biblical scholars have traditionally occupied a position some distance downstream from the vanguards of method and theory, and so we sometimes find ourselves scrambling for new comparative data or to identify and adopt new theoretical frameworks to bridge the gaps between our questions and our data.
https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-a ... 38/7128237
- Pakkala, J K (2017) The Origins of Yahwism from the Perspective of Deuteronomism, in M Witte & J van Oorschot (eds), The Origins of Yahwism. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, no. 484, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 267-281
