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...Jeffers' ex-wife charged that he had failed to keep up his alimony and had explained that Yahweh had told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook to exterminate the Canaanites among whom Abraham, worshipping El, had spent his life in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...people led by Moses from Egypt were led directly to Kadesh Barnea, where under Moses' instigation a union of tribes under Yahweh, the deity of the Judean tribes, was consummated. . . . Yahwism was made the sole official cultus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Nowhere is it affirmed that Moses maintained that Yahweh alone existed." Professor Shalom Spiegel of Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion reported the discovery of a seal inscribed to Ge-daliah, the puppet Hebrew regent whom Nebuchadnezzar set up after he conquered Jerusalem in 589 B.C. to rule over the few Judeans he did not take back to Babylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...They arose to rend him. Leah, whose beloved life he had had to break and to whom he was "dead," cried them from defilement, cried their thumbs to their ears to defeat his sacrilege. After the fast she saw the face of her guilt a last time, calling her Yahweh's Avenger, by night to go to Eli with a knife and at dawn to the police station. Little Reuben was left to cry in the wilderness, to hate Christ and Yahweh alike, to cleave to a bust of the beautiful Apollo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atonement* | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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