Sunday, September 8, 2013

bibliography on the name YHWH

Here is an ascending chronological list (non-exhaustive) on the discussion of the question of the name YHWH (origin and meaning):

F. C. Burkitt, “On the Name Yahweh,” Journal of Biblical Literature 43, no. 3-4 (1924), 353-356; Raymond A. Bowman, “Yahweh the Speaker,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 3, no. 1 (1944): 1-8; James A. Montgomery, “The Hebrew Divine Name and the Personal Pronoun HŪ,” Journal of Biblical Literature 63, no. 2 (1944), 161-163; M. H. Segal, “El, Elohim, and Yahweh in the Bible,” Jewish Quarterly Review 46, no. 2 (1955): 98-115; Aimo Edvard Murtonen, The Appearance of the Name Yhwh outside Israel (Helsinki, 1951); Idem, A Philological and Literary Treatise on the Old Testament Divine Names אל, and אלוה, אלהים, יהוה (Helsinki, 1952); John Gray, “The God YW in the religion of Canaan,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 12, no. 4 (1953): 278-283; S. D. Goitein, “YHWH the Passionate: the Monotheistic Meaning and Origin of the Name YHWH,” Vetus Testamentum 6, no. 1 (1956), 1-9; Rudolf Meyer, “Der Gottesname Jahwe im Lichte der neuesten Forschung,” Biblische Zeitschrift (Neue Folge) 2 (1958): 26-53; David N. Freedman, “The Name of the God of Moses,” Journal of Biblical Literature 79, no. 2 (1960): 151-56; Raymond Abba, “The Divine Name Yahweh,” Journal of Biblical Literature 80, no. 4 (1961): 320-328; Sigmund O. P. Mowinckel, “The Name of the God of Moses,” Hebrew Union College Annual 32 (1961): 121-33; Frank Moore Cross, Jr., “Yahweh and the God of the Patriarchs,” Harvard Theological Review 55, no. 4 (1962), 225-259; Otto Eissfeldt, “Jahwe, der Gott der Väter,” Theologische Literaturzeitung 88, no. 7 (Jul 1963): 481-490; Hans Kosmala, “The Name of God (YHWH and HU’),” Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute 2 (1963): 103-120; Jozef Vergote, “Une Théorie sur l'Origine Égyptienne du Nom de Yahweh,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 39, no. 3 (1963), 447-452; James Philip Hyatt, “The Origin of Mosaic Yahwism,” The Teacher’s Yoke: Studies in Memory of Henry Trantham (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 1964), 85-93; William Foxwell Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: A Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths, Jordan Lectures 1965 (London: Athlone, 1968), 168-72; F G. Smith, “Observations on the Use of the Names and Titles of God in Genesis: and the Bearing of Exodus 6:3 on the Same,” Evangelical Quarterly 40, no. 2 (1968), 103-109; Roland de Vaux, “El et Baal, le Dieu des Peres et Yahweh,” Ugaritica VI: Publié à l'Occasion de la XXXe Campagne de Fouilles à Ras Shamra (1968), Mission Archéologique de Ras Shamra 17; Bibliothèque Archéologique et historique 81 (Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1969), 501-517; Roland de Vaux, “The Revelation of the Divine Name YHWH,” Proclamation and Presence: Old Testament Essays in Honor of Gwynne Henton, ed. John I. Durham, Joshua Roy Porter (London: SCM Press, 1970), 48-75; Michael C. Astour, “Yahweh in Egyptian Topographic Lists,” Festschrift Elmar Edel, ed. Manfred Görg and E. Pusch (Bamberg: Manfred Görg, 1979), 17-34; A. R. Millard, “YW and YHW Names,” Vetus Testamentum 40, no. 2 (1980), 208-212; Stig I L. Norin, YW and YHW Names: A Reply to A. R. Millard,” Vetus Testamentum 40, no. 2 (1980), 239-240; A. Cooper and M. H. Pope, “Divine Name and Epithets in the Ugaritic Texts,” Ras Shamra Parallels: The Texts From Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible, Analecta Orientalia 51 (Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1981), 3:337-42; Conrad E. L’Heureuz, “Searching for the Origins of God,” in Traditions and Transformations: Turning Points in Biblical Faith, Frank Moore Cross Festschrift, ed. B. Halpern and J. D. Levenson (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1981), 33-44; Z. Zevit, “A Chapter in the History of Israelite Personal Names,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 250 (1983): 1-16; Ernst A. Knauf, “Yahwe,” Vetus Testamentum 34, no. 4 (1984): 467-472; Charles R. Gianotti, “The Meaning of the Divine Name YHWH,” Bibliotheca Sacra, 142, no. 565 (1985), 38-51; Tryggve N. D. Mettinger, In Search of God: The Meaning and Message of the Everlasting Names, trans. Frederick H. Cryer (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988); Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (NY: HarperCollins, 1990); Stephanie Dalley, “Yahweh in Hamath in the 8th Century BC: Cuneiform Material and Historical Deductions,” Vetus Testamentum 40, no. 1 (1990), 21-32; Richard S. Hess, “The divine name Yahweh in Late Bronze Age sources,” Ugarit-Forschungen 23 (1991), 181-188; Mark S. Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts (NY: Oxford University Press, 2001); Josef Tropper, “Der Gottesname Yahwa,” Vetus testamentum 51, no. 1 (2001), 81-106; John Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series 265 (NY: Sheffield Academic Press, 2002); Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green, The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East, Biblical and Judaic Studies 8 (Winoma Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2003); William G. Denver, Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005); Thomas Schneider, “The First Documented Occurrence of the god Yahweh? (Book of the Dead Princeton "roll 5"),” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 7, no. 2 (2007), 113-120; Baruch Halpern, From Gods to God: The Dynamics of Iron Age Cosmologies, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 63 (Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2009)  

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