Habakkuk Echoes God from Teman in a Sinai Inscription

... Kuntillet ʻAjrud lay near a thoroughfare route that connects the coastal city of Eilat with Gaza on the Mediterranean Sea. Ceramic stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating assign the site's use to the late 9th century BCE. Many references carved or drawn on storage pithoi, plaster walls, and stone jars are made to “Yahweh of Teman” and “Yahweh of Samaria”; both even made in consort with the deity Asherah and alongside mentions of El and Baal. ... The locale of Kuntillet ʻAjrud brings to mind Elijah's pilgrimage south from north Israel to the mountain of god in the 9th century BCE (1 Kings 19:1-14). We have already seen the record of a Yahwistic cult site near the capital city of North Israel clarified here with the honorific title “Yahweh of Samaria.” The difficulty arises when the similar title “Yahweh of Teman” implies the possibility of a Yahwistic cult located in Teman of Edom. ...