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Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other than the Israelite people. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible, with an exhaustive survey of ancient Near Eastern literature and inscriptions discovered by archaeology, and using anthropology to reconstruct religious practices and beliefs of ancient Edom and Midian, this study proposes an answer. Yahweh-worshiping Midianites of the Early Iron Age brought their deity along with metallurgy into ancient Palestine and the Israelite people.

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Robert Miller is a Secular Franciscan and Ordinary Professor of Old Testament at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. With a PhD from the University of Michigan, he has taught and written widely on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Ancient Israel. He is a Research Affiliate of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria and a Life Member of St Johns College, Cambridge.

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