Was Yahweh a Canaanite deity?
These data suggest that, before becoming publicly worshipped in Israel, Yahweh was formerly the god of the Canaanite guild of metallurgists. Cain, copper smelting, Yahweh, Edom, Kenite, origin of monotheism. What deity is Yahweh? Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in…