RE: Extermination of Canaanites
July 20, 2018 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2018 at 4:53 pm by JairCrawford.)
(July 20, 2018 at 8:35 am)Wololo Wrote: their god (who started off as a very minor Canaanite war god).
I will contest this part of what you said as we do have evidence of YHWH being mentioned earlier in an Egyptian stele referring to the Shasu nomads. Thus it is possible YHWH has nomadic origins outside of Kena'an. What does seem evident though is this YHWH's later adoption into the Kena'any pantheon and then recognition as being one and the same as El, the chief creator deity of Kena'an (or who was recognized as such at least during the Ugaritic period).
Also, whether this YHWH started out as a war god is debatable. There are theories just as valid that support a weather deity, moon deity, or desert deity hypothesis.
