ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the scope of data for a possible story of YHWH, attempts to provide helpful lenses to approach a broader data set, and used a wide variety of texts in their multiple proposed time periods to ask questions about how one story of YHWH might have unfolded, while highlighting some aspects not yet fully considered. It offers another contribution to clarifying the earliest layers of YHWHism. The challenges to YHWH’s urbanism also came with a return to some of the earlier expressions. While the urban context was always retained in some form, YHWH of the liminal spaces and its connection to marginalized people was regained. In the Persian period, examples such as the Elephantine community and its texts show that in some contexts YHWHism was thrust back into a similar situation as the earlier period, where YHWHism was now one expression in close proximity to others.
