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Yahweh

Cited in 2 segments across 1 recording · 2020 · term/term:yahweh

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28 Oct 2020video Why does the biblical tradition say God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son? Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites adopted the name Yahweh, a Near Eastern war god from the household of El, and that god's brutal character carried over into their picture of God, making such a command plausible to them. For Muslims, he says, that is not the true image of Allah. Lessonposition checkedIbrahimYahwehEl (Canaanite deity name) machine3 min 57 s17:12on YouTube

28 Oct 2020video If God never commanded the sacrifice, why do the early sources all say he did? Mufti Abu Layth agrees that no primary sources support his reading and explains it by early Muslims absorbing Israelite material, by the brutal environment of the age being projected onto God, and by the absence of anything from the Prophet saying God commanded it. He repeats that a God who stages a mock execution of a child is unacceptable, and that Allah never says the command was his. Question from live chatposition checkedIbrahimIsrailiyyatYahweh machine4 min 55 s26:22on YouTube