Signs of YHWH, God of the Hebrews, in New Kingdom Egypt?

Authors

  • Racheli Shalomi Hen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46586/er.12.2021.9463

Keywords:

YHWH, toponyms, Shasu, Canaanite Gods, Anat, Baal, Astarte, Qedeshet, Reshef, Dagon, Seth, classifiers

Abstract

This paper offers some observations on the meaning the Egyptians may have assigned to the name YHWA/YHA/YH, which is attested in lists of toponyms inscribed on temple walls dated to the time of the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BCE), and in a personal name of one owner of a Book of the Dead papyrus from around the same time. The paper examines the occurrences of names of Canaanite gods in Egyptian transcription, with special attention to orthography, through which it sheds new light on the Egyptian understanding of the name YHWA/YHA/YH.

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Published

2022-02-08

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2: The Desert Origins of God: Yahweh's Emergence and Early History in the Southern Levant and Northern Arabia

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Copyright (c) 2022 Racheli Shalomi Hen

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How to Cite

Signs of YHWH, God of the Hebrews, in New Kingdom Egypt?. (2022). Entangled Religions, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.46586/er.12.2021.9463