entity · term_yhwh
YHWH / Yahweh
A divine name attested in increasingly clear first-millennium contexts, with debated relationships to earlier Egyptian toponyms.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1400 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · defines
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Provides historical and philological framework.
Locator: entire monograph - informs · provides primary evidence
The Inscriptions — Shmuel Ahituv, Esther Eshel, Zeev Meshel (2012)Provides later direct inscriptional evidence.
Locator: blessing formulae
Research description
A divine name attested in increasingly clear first-millennium contexts, with debated relationships to earlier Egyptian toponyms. Website labels and tooltips must display the source date and meaning rather than normalize all periods into one identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines
Yahweh before Israel: Glimpses of History in a Divine Name — Daniel E. Fleming (2021)Provides historical and philological framework.
Locator: entire monograph - informs · provides primary evidence
The Inscriptions — Shmuel Ahituv, Esther Eshel, Zeev Meshel (2012)Provides later direct inscriptional evidence.
Locator: blessing formulae
Referenced records
- Southern Levant · entity