Bronze Age World

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Type: academic monograph
Publication: Cambridge University Press
Peer reviewed: Yes

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entity Midian-associated groups
Evidence confidence: low
informs · contextualizes · Midianite hypothesis chapter and southern evidence
Reviews proposals without equating Midian directly with Shasu or early Israel.
date assertion Midian-associated groups — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Midianite hypothesis chapter and southern evidence
Reviews proposals without equating Midian directly with Shasu or early Israel.
entity Ugaritic textual corpus as southern Levantine religious and literary comparanda
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · comparative Northwest Semitic evidence throughout
Uses Ugaritic and other evidence while distinguishing chronology and culture.
date assertion Ugaritic textual corpus as southern Levantine religious and literary comparanda — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · comparative Northwest Semitic evidence throughout
Uses Ugaritic and other evidence while distinguishing chronology and culture.
relationship Ugaritic textual corpus as southern Levantine religious and literary comparanda — comparative context for — YHWH / Yahweh
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · Ugaritic comparanda
Supports relation.
claim Shasu is an Egyptian external mobility/population label and cannot be equated wholesale with Israelites, Midianites, Edomites, or Yahweh worshippers.
Evidence confidence: high
informs · critiques interpretation · southern-origin hypotheses
Provides limits.
relationship Shasu — not equivalent to — Early Israelites
Evidence confidence: high
informs · critiques interpretation · Shasu and Israel discussion
Supports guardrail.
entity YHWH / Yahweh
Evidence confidence: high
informs · defines · entire monograph
Provides historical and philological framework.
date assertion YHWH / Yahweh — date assertion
informs · defines · entire monograph
Provides historical and philological framework.
ranked model Early Yahwism and Shasu/Midian proposals
Evidence confidence: low
informs · proposes interpretation · historical synthesis
Model range.
claim The Egyptian Yhwꜣ-of-Shasu-land attestations are plausibly related to Yahweh, but they do not prove that Israelite Yahwism originated from one Shasu or Midianite group.
Disputed interpretationConfidence in this assessment: moderateConfidence in the stated assessment
informs · proposes interpretation · historical synthesis
Provides broader model.
relationship Midian-associated groups — may overlap in some contexts — Shasu
Evidence confidence: low
informs · proposes interpretation · Midianite hypothesis and cautions
Supports low-confidence relation.
date assertion Egyptian attestations of Yhwꜣ in a Shasu-land context — date assertion
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · proposes interpretation · chapters 1-3
Provides broader historical model and critique.
event Egyptian attestations of Yhwꜣ in a Shasu-land context
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · proposes interpretation · chapters 1-3
Provides broader historical model and critique.
causal hypothesis Early Yahwism through southern interaction networks
Evidence confidence: low
informs · proposes interpretation · historical model
Main synthesis.