One group of shasu has intrigued historians particularly. During the fifteenth century BCE, a place in Edom was called Yahu in the land of shasu. Yahu is a shortened form of the divine name Yahweh, a kind of nickname. It was not uncommon for places to be named after the god worshiped in the area. Apparently, there were some Yahweh worshipers living on the southern edges of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age. The Bible calls its god Yahweh and places the wandering Israelites in southern Edom as part of