Jul 31, 2020 · In his article “The Face of Yahweh?” published in the Fall 2020 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reveals the head …

Mar 29, 2023 · It only insists that seeing YHWH—and more specifically, YHWH’s face—is deadly: שׁמות לג:כ וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא תוּכַל לִרְאֹת אֶת פָּנָי כִּי לֹא יִרְאַנִי הָאָדָם וָחָי.

Nov 1, 2014 · “Your sins have separated between you and YHWH, and your chet (sins) have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear,” Isaiah 59:2. Chet is the distance we place …

Feb 17, 2025 · For Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, what he found during an inspection of 3,000-year-old artifacts may have been …

The Bible describes YHWH as glowing (kabod), and YHWH’s heat as melting mountains, imagery connected with volcano gods, the divine patrons of metalworkers such as the Kenites, who …

Jan 1, 2019 · When Moses asks God his name, God first answers by saying “I am what I am” and even follows this up with “tell them Ehyeh (I-Am) sent you.” The word ehyeh (“I am”) sounds …

Jun 17, 2024 · When Jacob met Yahweh at Peniel, Jacob said, “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved” (Genesis 32:30). Because Moses had a personal relationship …

Nov 22, 2017 · And the angel of Yahweh went from his sight. And Gideon realized that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, ‘Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of …

In Deut 4:12, Yahweh’s physical appearance is left unspecified: “Then the Lord spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice” (italics …

YHWH or YHVH is the Hebrew name with which God identified Himself to Moses on Mount Horeb (Exodus 3:14). The sacred tetragrammaton, pronounced as Yahweh, consists of 4 consonants …