{"product_id":"canaanite-myth-and-hebrew-epic-9780674091764","title":"Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel’s religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCross’s classic work is…an essential element in the armory of any serious biblical scholar… If you haven’t got it, get it! It is profound, definitive, and wonderfully readable. -- J. Harold Ellens * Journal of Psychology and Christianity *\u003cbr\u003eThe essays in this study are all written with the complementary breadth of scope and attention to detail characteristic of Cross; each one is stimulating and several are a mine of information beyond the confines of the essay’s topic. -- Bezalel Porten * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003eDeserves to be read carefully and to be digested slowly… [This] book is full of fertile and productive theories. -- P. Wernberg-Moller * Journal of Jewish Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations      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 (Dtr1)    The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History (Dtr2)    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 Biblical Citations   Index of Ugaritic Citations   Index of Technical Terms   Index of Authors   General Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735969870167,"sku":"9780674091764","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canaanite-myth-and-hebrew-epic-9780674091764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}