Granted, my choice of (English) wording in the bracketed summary of a Heideggerian perspective can give the wrong impression. However, it is all I could manage in the space available, especially with reference to Heidegger whose views on essence are varied throughout his writings (cf. Heidegger 1993a: 115-138; 1993b: 369–391; 1993c: 139-167). So much so, that one can say that Heideggerian philosophical assumptions (not to be confused with how he might have asked this question, essence and being in general, or how his thought relates to Christian conceptions of God), allows asking the question of what an god in the HB was assumed to be with reference to any of the following:
1. Divine ‘essence’ (i.e. common properties)
2. Divine ‘whatness’ (i.e. quiddity and constitutive properties)
3. Divinity's ‘essentialsway’ (i.e. necessary properties)
4. Divinity's ‘inherent’ nature (i.e. intrinsic properties)
5. The ‘whole’ or totality of divinity (i.e. consequential properties)
6. The divine's ‘way of being’ (i.e. identity over time)
7. ‘What is ownmost’ in a god (i.e. haecceity and identity across possible worlds)
This multiplicity of construction possibilities in Heidegger's constructions of the concept of "Wesen" (as "essence", "being" and "character") was what I had to consider in, somewhat foolishly, attempting the most briefest of summaries thereof with reference to the concept at hand in the context of its reapplication.
Granted, my choice of (English) wording in the bracketed summary of a Heideggerian perspective can give the wrong impression. However, it is all I could manage in the space available, especially with reference to Heidegger whose views on essence are varied throughout his writings (cf. Heidegger 1993a: 115-138; 1993b: 369–391; 1993c: 139-167). So much so, that one can say that Heideggerian philosophical assumptions (not to be confused with how he might have asked this question, essence and being in general, or how his thought relates to Christian conceptions of God), allows asking the question of what an god in the HB was assumed to be with reference to any of the following:
1. Divine ‘essence’ (i.e. common properties)
2. Divine ‘whatness’ (i.e. quiddity and constitutive properties)
3. Divinity's ‘essentialsway’ (i.e. necessary properties)
4. Divinity's ‘inherent’ nature (i.e. intrinsic properties)
5. The ‘whole’ or totality of divinity (i.e. consequential properties)
6. The divine's ‘way of being’ (i.e. identity over time)
7. ‘What is ownmost’ in a god (i.e. haecceity and identity across possible worlds)
This multiplicity of construction possibilities in Heidegger's constructions of the concept of "Wesen" (as "essence", "being" and "character") was what I had to consider in, somewhat foolishly, attempting the most briefest of summaries thereof with reference to the concept at hand in the context of its reapplication.