Kenite hypothesis
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The Kenite hypothesis (also called the Midianite hypothesis) proposes that the origins of Yahweh, and by extension Yahwism, do not lie in Canaan, but instead originated in the area immediately south of the Levant, the northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, in the area the Tanakh calls "Midian".[1] The theory states that Yahweh originally was a Midianite deity, who made his way up north to the proto-Israelites.