He is completely whole within himself, and he is eternal — he has always existed, and he always will. He is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. And he is the only one in existence who can be described this way. The rest of us need quite a lot to go right in order to keep existing!
The most powerful human on earth is still at the mercy of his health and fortune. A great example of this is Psalm The author talks in the first 6 verses about Elohim another name for God and his relationship with the material world. Then, in verse 7, he shifts and starts to write about Yahweh and his relationship with those who know him and who are in covenant with him.
This is a God who was so love-motivated to know us and to be in relationship with us that he came to earth as a human and took the punishment we deserved. It is probably a core part of your belief system. But those of us who have the least qualms with a God who exists can start to forget the beauty and significance of the fact that God is here. Yahweh is here, interacting with our world, among us. And he does that out of love. God is under no obligation to remain close to us, working in our lives and writing a love story between himself and the world.
And yet, he chooses to do so. In fact, he chooses to build his very kingdom among believers:. But our God does not conform to any of this.
He remains constant through it all. Yahweh has always been who he is, from the beginning of time; he has always been the standard for absolute perfection and holiness. We have the binary choice to either choose Him and conform to him — or not. There is no third option where we can have a slightly different version of him. We need to keep a white-knuckled grip on the truth of the unchanging God. Tabes Louvain , The point is that the Midianites are from the same area as the Arabian tribes and were likely part of this Arab or proto-Arab group.
Unlike in the word shaswe , it cannot be a phonetic complement since phonetic complements are paired to the second consonant of a biliteral sign, or to both consonants, but not to just the first. In theory it could be another consonant yielding Yehwaw.
Before teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and then at Princeton, he wrote on the Bible and was even in charge of Bible education in mandatory Palestine. Dever , ed. Seymour Gitin, George E. Wright, and J. Gilda Bartolini and Maria G. Briga Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, , He holds a Ph. I would like to receive new essays When published Before Shabbat. Torah Portion. This Week's Torah Portion. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy. Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah.
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