Endnote 1 – Yahweh or Baal—Who Was the God of Northern Israel?

There are no references to the god Yahweh, or personal or place names with the divine element Yahweh, in Late Bronze Age sources or early alphabetic texts from the early Iron Age. The name yhw in Egyptian topographical texts from Amara West and Soleb does not refer to a deity but a people group, the name of which cannot be clearly linked to the god Yahweh.