WE MUST FIRST NOTICE that it is Yahweh who speaks. This marks a shift in terms, because throughout the dialogues and discourses of the book, the deity has most often been identified as El Shaddai or Elohim.4 The use of Yahweh in the prologue and now in the divine speeches may well have significance, but it is not transparent what it might be. One might note that Shaddai pertains to the power of God and the switch to Yahweh may signal a theological upgrade in how the audience
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