secondary_with_primary_text_analysis · src_fleming_2021_yhwa_shasu
Yhwꜣ of Shasu-Land
Daniel E. Fleming · 2021
Reading ancient testimony
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Document and modern access
- Type
- book chapter
- Publication
- Cambridge University Press
Records informed by this source
- relationship Yhwꜣ in the land of the Shasu toponymic attestations — possibly related to — YHWH / YahwehEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · proposes interpretation · phonetic and historical analysis
Supports possibility.
- date assertion Shasu — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · chapter 2; Egyptian Shasu-land lists
Provides philological context for Shasu and Yhwꜣ.
- entity Yhwꜣ in the land of the Shasu toponymic attestationsEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Chapter 2; Soleb/Amarah West list discussion
Presents the philology and limits of identification.
- date assertion Yhwꜣ in the land of the Shasu toponymic attestations — date assertioninforms · provides primary evidence · Chapter 2; Soleb/Amarah West list discussion
Presents the philology and limits of identification.
- event Egyptian attestations of Yhwꜣ in a Shasu-land contextEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Chapter 2; Egyptian list contexts
Presents the text and identification limits.
- property assignment Shasu — has property — Ancient external designationEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Egyptian Shasu-land lists
Supports assignment.
- claim Shasu is an Egyptian external mobility/population label and cannot be equated wholesale with Israelites, Midianites, Edomites, or Yahweh worshippers.Evidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · Egyptian Shasu-land list analysis
Defines the attestation.
- causal hypothesis Early Yahwism through southern interaction networksEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · Egyptian attestations
Early anchor.
- ranked model Early Yahwism and Shasu/Midian proposalsEvidence confidence: lowinforms · provides primary evidence · Egyptian evidence
Anchor.
- relationship Yhwꜣ in the land of the Shasu toponymic attestations — attests — ShasuEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · toponym-list contexts
Direct attestation.
- date assertion Egyptian attestations of Yhwꜣ in a Shasu-land context — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides primary evidence · Chapter 2; Egyptian list contexts
Presents the text and identification limits.
- entity ShasuEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides primary evidence · chapter 2; Egyptian Shasu-land lists
Provides philological context for Shasu and Yhwꜣ.
- 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 assessmentinforms · provides primary evidence · Egyptian toponym discussion
Supports relationship.