The over-extended domain of Yahweh should not be regarded as the consequence of a rapid diffusion of the Israelite religion during the First Temple period. It is rather the expression of a very ancient homology (if not identity) existing between the gods of metallurgy during the Bronze Age. (p. 403)(from 'Yahweh, the Canaanite God of Metallurgy?', JSOT 33.4 (2009): 387-404)
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