Yahweh is simply the very much enlarged image of a stern, ruthless, bloody-minded Jewish patriarch of the historical time in which those ancient books were written.

NOT what I would want for a God, that's for sure! I'd rather be ruled over by a noble and merciful God resembling Liv Tyler's "Arwen" in "Lord of the Rings" or Joan of Arc or someone along that general line. That would be a God I could believe in and follow with real enthusiasm and confidence.

Yahweh??? I don't think so!

The Arabs and the Jews and other Semitic people, ironically, are BOTH the descendents of Abraham. Nothing is worse than a family quarrel.