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Who is Yahweh-The God of Israel-How Did a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and Wor

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How did a warrior-storm god become Yahweh, the god of world Abrahamic monotheism? By tracing the earliest history of Yahweh ("The One Exists") to his origins in the area around Mt Seir to his immigration during the Bronze Age Collapse to the Judea Highlands around Shiloh, this episode explores the early history of the Israelite God. How did Yahweh and his Yahwism transform in theater of Canaanite religion - dominated by El, Ba'al, Asherah, Anat and other myth figures? What aspects of local religion did the Yahwists assimilate, reject and contend over in that process? This episode explore the early history of Yahweh and the rise of Yahweh henotheism/monolatry and primitive monotheism.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago  

YAHWEH:
How did a deity god from the obscurity of the sands of the desert land of Canaan (the modern day Palestine and Israel) become not just the national deity god of the Israelite Jews Hebrew but the god that is worship by the overwhelming majority of the peoples of the world today?

How did a small tribal desert storm god in the land of Canaan go from being a small second-tier god, a minor god worshiped by a small tribal group of people in the desert land of Canaan to become the supreme god deity that is worshipped by the overwhelming majority of the peoples of the world?

The first time historians hear or seen the name “Yahweh” is in classical Kmt in the enemies list of SaRa Amenhotep III, and SaRa Rameses II depicting those who worship Yahweh, Shasu of Yahweh, as nomadic Bedouin pastoral shepherd desert people who just roam about raiding, plundering and causing havoc wherever they go (Hyksos?).

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago

“Yahweh” was a second tier god with El being the one supreme creator deity god in ancient Canaan (modern day Palestine and Israel).

The Hebrew and Judeo-Christian Bible is filled with mythological stories with a sprinkle of historical facts and references.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago

The first time historians ever heard or seen the name “Yahweh” is in classical Kmt (ancient Egypt) as the god of a small tribal god of a nomadic shepherd Bedouin raiding people in the desert land of Canaan (modern day Palestine and Israel)

The first time historians ever heard or seen the name Yahweh is in classical Kmt not in ‘ancient’ Israel. And those who worshipped Yahweh, Shasu of Yahweh, were a small tribal nomadic pastoral shepherd Bedouins of the desert lands of Canaan (modern day Palestine and Israel).

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago

“Israel” first appears in history near the end of the 13th century BCE within the Egyptian Merneptah Stele, referring apparently to a people, rather than a place.

The first time historians ever heard or seen the name “Israel” is in classical Kmt not in Israel. The first time Israel is ever mentioned in history is on the Egyptian Merneptah Stele.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago

Shasu of Yahweh
The Shasu, is Ancient Egyptian: šꜣsw, possibly pronounced šaswə, were Semitic-speaking pastoral Bedouin nomads in the Southern Levant (Palestine) from the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. They were tent dwellers nomads, organized in clans ruled by a tribal chieftain and were described as raiders and plunderers, in the Sinai Peninsula (northeastern Egypt into Palestine). Some of them also worked as mercenaries for Asiatic and Egyptian armies.

The name Shasu etymology is Egyptian šꜣsw, which originally meant "those who move on foot", “Those who wanders around, “To plunder” To raid.”
Levy, Adams, and Muniz report similar possibilities: the Egyptian word šꜣs that means "to wander", and an alternative Semitic triliteral root, Hebrew: שָׁסַס‎, romanized: šāsas, with the meaning "to plunder".

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 1 day ago

African people, a tropical people, worshiping a storm god of the desert.
I will never understand that there are afrikan=Black people that really believe the Hebrew Israelites Jews were and are Black people.

Igbo people of Nigeria believe they are Jews, the original Jews in the desert land of Israel.
Ga people of Ghana, believe they are Jews, the original Jews in the desert land of Israel.
Lemba of Zimbabwe and South Africa, believe they are Jews, the original Jews in the desert land of Israel.
The Beta Israel of Ethiopia, believe they are Jews, the original Jews in the desert land of Israel.

Black people=African people really believe they are the Jews who worship a desert storm-god in the desert land of Israel.

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