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“to fashion,”129 יצר, of Isaiah 43:1;130 45:18, it affirmed, says Anderson, not creation ex-nihilo, but Yahweh’s creation out of the Word.131
Yahweh, El-Elyon, Maker of Heaven and Earth (Gen. 14:19,22)132 3⁄4 exalted and transcendent 3⁄4 freely creates, and spontaneously commands, through his revealed Word, all things into coming into being, as the Psalmist sings,
.The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon. Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius יצר 129 Strong’s Number 03335.
130 “For this is what the LORD says — he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
131 Anderson, B.W. The Earth is the Lord’s: An Essay on the Biblical Doctrine of Creation. Interpretation, IX (1955), 3-20.
132 This title belongs to Canaanite religion. Anderson, B.W. The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “Creation.” Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume 1. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962. .726
By contrast, the etymology of Yahweh is complex, varying from “O He, O that One,” to “the One Who Is” (absolute and unchangeable), to “He who acts passionately” (Arabic causative HWY), to “He who Speaks” (Ugaritic HWT or HWY), to “He Who Is the Sustainer, Maintainer, and Establisher of the cosmos” (causative participle YHWH from Phoenician inscription), to “He is one who causes to be what comes to pass,” echoing ancient Egyptian liturgical formulas, to “I am who I am” (YHWH, Ex. 3:14) interpreted either as making himself present as he wills (Ex.33:19), or as “causing things to become into existence.” Eventually, many “El-” names were compounded with Yahweh, and he becomes, in the Schechem Covenant Tradition, “El Elohe-Israel:” the God of Israel. In time, he is given many other appellations such as the rock of Israel; father, brother, and kinsman; King, Judge, and Shepherd. In brief, Yahweh, unlike Plato’s craftsman, is active, dynamic and his lordship, commanding power over nature, is manifested throughout Creation and history. He is the living and Savior God who, having revealed himself, empowers, and directs his people towards the Promised Land, and also saves them (Deut. 30:20). The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. An Illustrated Encyclopaedia. “OT View of God.” Written by Anderson, B.W. Ed. Arthur Buttrick and Emory Stevens Bucke. Volume II. Nashville: Abingdon Press, .421-430 .1962
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