Thus, I decided to present information on the subject.
here is a link from discoveries on the Sinai peninsula about the use of Yahweh in short form.
see
www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/...ainfs.html
excerpt:
Quote:
With a collection of over one hundred and thirty inscriptions this study has opened a small window to the early (pre-Exile) history of Canaanite peoples of the Negev. And since twenty-five percent of the inscriptions contain names of the God of Israel (Yah, El/Yah, Yahu, and Yahh) it seems fair to say that these Canaanite speakers had a covenant relationship with Yahweh
Here are the inscriptions from the same site called
Onto the Names of God
Yah (Yahweh) is represented by a Ram. El by a Bull ,and Elath, (Hebrew Ashera), by a tree.
This shows that long before the Moabite stone, around 1200-1000 BC, people in the Negev already used El Yah and thought of Elath as Yah's consort.
Excerpts:
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The tree [of] `Elath, a place of suspense, the ram Yah of Gat.
[From Ruth Hestrin, "Understanding Asherah" BAR, Sept./Oct. 1991, pp. 50-52-59. The "Yah of Gat" translation by Harris and Hone.
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here Yah is seen as father already
Quote:
Beloved, escape to my God my Father, Jah.
already as a rain God
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The gift of Yah from heavens [sun and rain, bringing sufficient fertility].
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Use of El Yah, and turning to Yahweh in times of danger
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For him in the time of evil (turn to) El Yah. Upon the heights God gave to the chosen, the escaped of the remnant (continued below) watchful [for] Yah.
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My favorite verse
Quote:
El Yah, life you will deliver, life in the hard night.
that is, my translation of it,, El Yahweh will deliver your life even in the worst darkest moments.
The Man of Yahweh
