How to pronounce “yahwe” in English

and this was always problematic for our Jewish friends and ancestors you knowwhy is Yahweh God using the pluralpronoun twice let us create in our image no one denies that's in the oldest

Everyone in this room.I don't worship anything anybody but Yahweh.

will punish them okay so you got the in the case of the ammonites he says hesays when the apocalypse comes Yahweh will bow down will punish those who bow down and swear to Yahweh but also swearto milk on the god of the ammonites and Zephaniah promises that Yahweh will also

think this is a pretty big step toward monotheism it's not clear that Josiah believed there was only one God he wasjust very clear he didn't want any gods other than Yahweh the God he had the most control over the interpretation ofin Israel okay so then the Exile comes

and as I said the parts of Isaiah this I'm going to this is a slide that I'mgoing to promptly skip this does characterize what scholars call the Yahweh alone party but I think you get the pictureso exilic monotheism is reflected in what's called second Isaiah you get a lot of clearly you know I am the first

correlation between like the specific gods he doesn't think you should worship and thusSiC people's that he thinks have wronged Israel and his specific hope that Yahwehwill punish them okay so you got the in the case of the ammonites he says he

says when the apocalypse comes Yahweh will bow down will punish those who bow down and swear to Yahweh but also swearto milk on the god of the ammonites and Zephaniah promises that Yahweh will alsodestroy the ammonites in Zephaniah feels that the ammonites have offended israel this is the key thing this is the source

then many of those gods are a threat to the king because the one God that the King Yahweh's profits would have been inthe king's court so he has a fair amount of influence over how Yahweh's will is interpreted but not so for otherprophets the other gods their prophets are floating around you know the country saying other things and the Bible says

is in 586 BCE early 6th century josiah becomes king inthe mid 7th century and he for one thing he goes to Yahweh's temple and and theyburn all the vessels made for bail and for Asherah and for all the hosts of heaven these these celestial deities

Everyone in this room.Eliyahu in Hebrew, Elijah, Eliyahu means Yahweh is my god.

live peacefully with neighbors but actually invoking the God of the neighbor to validate that arrangement sothey say to the ammonites you know look your God Chemosh gave you your land our God Yahweh gave us our land can't we getalong and use in all three in all three religions you have this kind of variation in moral tenor in the

sanction so if they're a bunch of a bunch of gods being worshipped in Israelthen many of those gods are a threat to the king because the one God that the King Yahweh's profits would have been inthe king's court so he has a fair amount of influence over how Yahweh's will is interpreted but not so for other

prophets the other gods their prophets are floating around you know the country saying other things and the Bible saysthat at one point there was something like four hundred prophets four Asherah a goddess who actually apparently was a consort of Yahweh's that's something youdon't hear about a lot but increasingly that's what archaeologists think and four hundred and fifty or four hundred prophets for bail the reviled Canaanite

The Japanese peoples' love of bathing is also one example I think.Here again I quote a phrase from "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown: "God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point""Call it whatever you like, the result is the same." "Science and religion support the same truth - pure energy is the father or creation."

Don't be an asshole.The teachings of Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Yahweh, Dionysus, Oprah, Yoda, and all the rest.Confucius. All we need to be told is that we are all presented with a similar challenge in life, which is you will encounter tests every day.