Who is Yahweh - How a Warrior-Storm God became the God of the Israelites and World Monotheism

Why HN readers recommended it

HN users recommend it as an impressively well-sourced, academic look at the origins of the Abrahamic religions.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ESOTERICA

Topic

history of yahweh

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• I watched this a while back and it was one of the few videos I’ve seen recently that really impressed me: [VIDEO]

• My favorite find in the last few months is the youtube channel "esoterica" - here's his video on the origins of yaweh as a storm god [VIDEO] He recommends books and primary sources for every episode and they vary from interesting more pubscience type stuff …

• I think the part i find interesting is it seems like we have a better picture of how the mythology shifted over time and was interpreted by different groups than we do with greek and norse mythology. So not just the stories themselves but how …