Yahweh
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Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah. Although there is no clear consensus regarding
God on the Winged Wheel coin
Uriyahu inscription, Khirbet el-Qom, 8th c. BCE, "Blessed is/be Uriyahu by Yahweh"
Seal of Hezekiah, 727 to 698. The winged disk is thought to represent Yahweh.
Winged disk seal reproduced in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906
Tetragrammaton
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The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew-language theonym יהוה, the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four Hebrew letters, written and read from right to left, are yod, he, vav, and he. The nam
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…period. By the time of the Jewish–Roman wars following the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the concomitant destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the original pronunciation of the name of the deity was forgotten entirely. Additionally, Yahweh is invoked in the Imperial Aramaic-language Papyrus Amherst 63 from ancient Egypt, and also in Jewish or…
Transcription of the divine name as ΙΑΩ in the 1st-century BCE Septuagint manuscript 4Q120
The Mesha Stele bears a reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh.
YHWH in one of the Lachish letters.
Ιεωα in Col. 15 line 10 (PGM VII 531).