Yahweh vs Allah - What's the difference?
yahweh | allah |
(history of religion) the name of the God of Israel worshipped by the Jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah in antiquity
* 1913 "No certain evidence for the pre-Mosaic use of the form Yahweh [...] seems yet to have been brought forward." (H. W. Robinson, Religious Ideas of Old Testament , 3.53)
* {{quote-book
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, publisher = Knopf
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, ol = 354828M
, page = 273
, passage = We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh , Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.
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(biblical) in "Sacred Name Bibles", translating the Tetragrammaton
* 1985 "At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven" (New Jerusalem Bible, Genesis 2:4)
God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
* {{quote-book, year = 1998, first = Anne, last = Rice, authorlink = Anne Rice
, title = The Vampire Armand, location = New York, publisher = Knopf
, isbn = 9780679454472, ol = 354828M, page = 273
, passage = We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah —He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.}}
As proper nouns the difference between yahweh and allah
is that yahweh is (history of religion) the name of the god of israel worshipped by the jahwist prophets in the kingdoms of israel and judah in antiquity while allah is allah.yahweh
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Synonyms
* Yahuwah * Jah * Jehovah * (YHVH)See also
* hallelujah * Tetragrammaton English terms derived from the Bible ----allah
Proper noun
(-)- What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah ?