Schulz
04/13/2012 -- The Jews had significant competition in antiquity when
it came to worshipping Yahweh. Archeologists have discovered a
second great temple not far from Jerusalem that predates its better ... Lord." A
silver ring is adorned with the tetragrammaton YHWH, which stands
for Yahweh.
All of this means that a vast, rival place of worship stood only 50
kilometers ... also been removed from the crucial passage.
Instead, the text states that the Yahweh altar was erected on "Ebal."
"By naming the mountain of the curses," says Schorch, "they wanted