Herbert Niehr, Der höchste Gott: Alttestamentlicher JHWH-Glaube im Kontext syrisch-kanaanäischer Religion des 1. Jahrtausends v. Chr. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990.

Abstract

Herbert Niehr undertakes a thorough and methodologically rigorous investigation into the theological and historical process by which Yahweh, the god of Israel, came to be identified as the Most High God (‘El ʿElyōn) within the broader matrix of Syrian-Canaanite religion during the first millennium BCE. Published as the 190th volume in the prestigious Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft series under the editorship of Otto Kaiser, the work engages frontally with one of the most contested questions in the history of Israelite religion: the antecedents of biblical monotheism.