‘The Impassioned God’ Of God-Loving Jews And Muslims – OpEd

In 1956, Shelomo Dov Goitein (1900-1985), an Israeli scholar of both Jewish and Arabic studies, wrote that the name special name of YHVH derives partly from the Arabic root h.w.y (هوى), and the word hawaya (هوايا), which means “love, affection, passion, desire.” Goitein pointed to the passage in Exodus 34, which...