Yahwism
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Yahwism may be
- the historical worship of Yahweh/Yahu in the Levant during the Iron Age, see YahwehYahwehYahweh is the name of God in the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jews and Christians.The word Yahweh is a modern scholarly convention for the Hebrew , transcribed into Roman letters as YHWH and known as the Tetragrammaton, for which the original pronunciation is unknown...
- the faction in modern Christianity or Judaism which insists on using the name "Yahweh" instead of the conventional "Lord", see Sacred Name MovementSacred Name MovementThe Sacred Name Movement is a movement within Adventism in Christianity, propagated by Clarence Orvil Dodd from the 1930s, that claims to seek to conform Christianity to its "Hebrew Roots" in practice, belief and worship. The best known distinction of the SNM is its advocacy of the use of the...