What's in a Name? “Yahweh” in Exodus 3 and the Wider Biblical Context

Interpretation 33 (3):227-239 (1979)
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In the third chapter of Exodus we are told what the name of God intrinsically means, in such a way that we are to understand the biblical history from the name, rather than the name from the biblical history

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