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Yahweh only for the Jews?
In the ancient land corresponding to the current Lebanon and Syria, before
the onset of the Jews in Palestine, had developed a civilization known as the
“Ugaritic culture”, named after the city of Ugarit, 19 its most important urban
centre. This city corresponds to the current Ras Shamra, located on the
Mediterranean Sea.
The Ugaritic culture produced the ostraka, ceramic bowls carrying
auspicious scriptures, found by archaeologists.
On some of them, addressed to travellers who were about to go south, one
reads: “May Yahweh of temàn and his Asheràh accompany you”.
In these apparently banal writing there are, in fact, two amazing keys.
First, the Ugaritic culture knew Yahweh as the “lord of temàn“, the Semitic
term for South, and it is known that Israel and the Sinai are located south to
Lebanon and Syria. So, travellers southward were entrusted to the
protection of the Elohìms ruling over those territories. But it also says that
the Elohìm called Yahweh had an Asherah, that means a “partner”. A
description that perfectly matches with the figure of the ANUNNAKI, who had
shared the territories, on which they ruled with their wives.
In addition, the name Yahweh is used by people in the territory of southern
Palestine (Sinai and Negev) during 3000 and 2000 BCE in the forms Ya,
Yaw, Yahu, and Yah. This Elohim therefore was a ruler (god) locally known
and adored. Several inscriptions with the tetragrammaton of Yahweh
(YHWH) and with the writing Yaw-rad which means “descent” belong to
this period (long before Moses and the Jews' Exodus). Yet, Yeh-red is the
name of a patriarch born “in the days when there was the descent.”
In Deuteronomy 2:9 Moses continues his story by listing the orders received
by Yahweh: in particular, they must not fight against Moab 20 because the
children of Lot, Abraham's nephew, had already taken over the “land of Ar”.
And he says that in this land of Ar (2:10): The Emims dwelt therein in times
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