Biblically, if Bronze Age Jews knew God as "El" until after the events of Exodus, then why are some major characters of Exodus named after Yahweh?

by RubixKuube

For instance the name Joshua? Based on Exodus 6:3 It suggests that until Moses the name Yahweh wasn't known to early Jews.

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord; and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as El Shaddai, but by My name, Yahweh, I did not make Myself known to them.

husky54

Ok, so first--no such thing as "Bronze Age Jews." No such thing as Jews until after the Babylonian exile, at which point the Persian empire begins referring to the people of Yahweh as people from the province of Yehud.

Second, the Exodus narrative was not penned during any of the events depicted in text (if those events happened in the first place). Rather, it was likely written much later, when the Yahweh cult was in full swing.