Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic
by Frank Moore CROSSFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2009-06-30
Publisher(s): Harvard University Press
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Summary
The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsolved problem in the description of Israel's religious development.
Table of Contents
| Abbreviations | |
| The Religion of Canaan and the God of Israel | |
| The God of the Fathers | |
| 'El and the God of the Fathers | |
| 'El in the Ugaritic Pantheon | |
| The Epithets of 'El | |
| 'El in the Canaanite Myth | |
| 'El and Ba'l Hamon | |
| The Abode of 'El | |
| 'El the Divine Patriarch | |
| Yahweh and 'El | |
| 'El in the Bible | |
| 'El Epithets in Patriarchal Narratives | |
| The Name Yahweh | |
| The Cultus of the Israelite League | |
| Prolegomena | |
| The Myth and Ritual School | |
| The History-of- Redemption School | |
| The Divine Warrior | |
| Psalm 24 and the Warrior-King | |
| The "Ritual Conquest" | |
| Transformations of the "Ritual Conquest" | |
| The Song of the Sea and Canaanite Myth | |
| The Mythic Cycle of Ba'l and 'Anat | |
| The Song of the Sea | |
| League and Kingdom | |
| Yahweh and Ba'I | |
| The Theophany of Ba'l | |
| The Storm Theophany in the Bible | |
| The Revelation at Sinai | |
| History of the Tradition of the Storm Theophany | |
| 'El's Modes of Revelation | |
| Yahweh and the Council of the Gods | |
| Ba'l versus Yahweh | |
| The Priestly Houses of Early Israel | |
| The Classical View of Israel's Early Priesthood | |
| The Function of the Stories of Conflict | |
| The Priestly Genealogies | |
| The Priests of David's National Shrine | |
| Kings and Prophets | |
| The Ideologies of Kingship in the Era of the Empire: Conditional Covenant and Eternal Decree | |
| The Limited Monarchy of Saul and Monarchy in the Northern Kingdom | |
| Davidic Kingship | |
| The Imperial Rule of Solomon | |
| The Judaean Royal Theology | |
| The Typology of the Royal Ideology | |
| A Brief Excursus on berit, "Covenant" | |
| The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History | |
| The Contemporary Discussion of the Structure of the Deuteronornistic History | |
| The Two Themes of the First Edition of the Deuteronomistic History (Dtr 1 ) | |
| The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History (Dtr 2 ) | |
| The Two Editions of the Deuteronomistic History | |
| Exile and Apocalyptic | |
| The Priestly Work | |
| The So-Called P-Source of the Pentateuch | |
| The P System of Covenants | |
| Is P a Narrative Source? | |
| Documents Used by P | |
| Archaizing Language in P | |
| The Date of P | |
| The Composition of the Priestly Work | |
| The Early History of the Apocalyptic Community at Qumran | |
| The Archaeological Context of the Qumran | |
| Qumran and the Essenes | |
| The Essenes: Priestly Apocalyptists Essene Origins | |
| A Note on the Study of Apocalyptic Origins | |
| Index of | |
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