{"id":268,"date":"2021-10-02T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=268"},"modified":"2022-07-16T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:35:52","slug":"the-origins-of-the-god-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/the-origins-of-the-god-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of the God of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 20px; display: inline-block;\"><strong>Aleksander Krogevoll,<\/strong> Instructor, University of St. Michael&#8217;s College<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; display: inline-block;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-717 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3-440x321.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2022-03-10-image3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to conduct any study on the origin of Yahwism, as the evidence for YHWH\u2019s origins remain limited. However, the absence of YHWH in the West-Semitic group of gods has led scholars to look for the deity\u2019s origins south of Israel. This presentation will offer an overview of the Midianite-Kenite hypothesis and explore why it has become the leading hypothesis for YHWH\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksander Krogevoll, University of St. Michael&#8217;s College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[32,19],"tribe_events_cat":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/268\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}