Yahweh Sabaoth
deity sky Jewish single tradition · 1
The monotheistic god of the Jews, invoked with the epithet Sabaoth. Greco-Roman authors attempted to understand this deity through interpretatio graeca, with some identifying Yahweh Sabaoth as Sabazius. Roman scholars such as Varro interpreted this god into Roman terms as Caelus or Jupiter Optimus Maximus.
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -100 – 400
- Historical notes
- Roman and Greco-Roman authors from the 1st century BCE through late antiquity attempted various syncretizations with their own deities.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Helios, Dionysus, Saturn, Sabazius, Sabaoth Adonai, Iao, Caelus, Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“Roman scholars such as Varro interpreted the monotheistic god of the Jews into Roman terms as Caelus or Jupiter Optimus Maximus. Some Greco-Roman authors seem to have understood the Jewish invocation of Yahweh Sabaoth as Sabazius.”
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