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If Yahweh was not a Canaanite god, this raises the question of where he originated and how he became the national god of Israel and Judah in Iron Age II ( 1000-586 ).

The first probable record of his name is in two Egyptian inscriptions from the 14th and 13th centuries, as a place-name, Yhw in the region of Edom associated with Shashu-Bedouins ".

According to a widely accepted theory ( the " Kenite hypothesis "), the Edomite god YHW could have been brought north to the Canaanite hill country and the early Israelites by migratory Edomite desert tribes, of whom the Kenites were one.