Yahwism

Yahwism, also known as the Israelite religion, was the ancient Semitic religion of the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah, centered on the worship of the deity Yahweh. Scholarship treats it as closely related to the wider Canaanite religion of the surrounding region, and argues that the earliest Israelite religion was not originally monotheistic in the later biblical sense, instead sharing beliefs and practices, including in some periods the veneration of a divine consort such as Asherah, with its neighbors before its later development toward exclusive monotheism. Yahwism is the historical religious tradition that later gave rise to Second Temple Judaism and, through it, to rabbinic Judaism, recorded separately in this atlas; it is recorded here as its own distinct earlier tradition rather than conflated with the Judaism entity, since a member revered within Yahwism specifically names this earlier ancient Israelite religion rather than later Judaism.