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Scriptural-portrayal assessment. This assessment evaluates YHWH/Jehovah only as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible. It does not claim that God exists or does not exist, and it does not score later Jewish or Christian communities. The corpus attributes mercy, liberation, law, care for vulnerable people and moral accountability to YHWH, while also attributing collective punishment, severe penal rules, divinely commanded warfare and destruction.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Current published result
The textual portrayal is morally bipolar: strong commitments to justice, mercy and protection coexist with commands and punishments that conflict sharply with modern standards of individual rights, proportionality and protection of civilians.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
The Hebrew Bible portrays YHWH as liberating an oppressed people, demanding honest courts, protecting strangers, widows and the poor, praising mercy and covenant fidelity, and imposing limits such as Sabbath and land rest.
The same corpus attributes collective punishment, the flood and plagues, commands to destroy populations, regulation rather than abolition of slavery and patriarchy, disproportionate penalties, unlimited authority and punishment of dissent.
Read the full YHWH/Jehovah as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible ethical assessment, evidence and sources
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
Hebrew Bible corpus · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile
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