{"product_id":"the-storm-god-in-the-ancient-near-east-9781575060699","title":"The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient Near East as well as many other cultures, Green brings together evidence from the worlds of myth, iconography, and literature in an attempt to arrive at a new synthesis regarding the place of the Storm-god. He finds that the Storm-god was the force primarily responsible for three major areas of human concern: (1) religious power because he was the ever-dominant environmental force upon which peoples depended for their very lives; (2) centralized political power; and (3) continuously evolving sociocultural processes, which typically were projected through the Storm-god’s attendants. Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; with regard to the latter, he argues that Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the Creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Mesopotamia: The Land between Two Rivers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClimate and Ecology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIconography of the Mesopotamian Storm-God: Prehistoric up to the End of the Old Babylonian Period\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTextual Evidence of Sumero-Akkadian Storm-Gods in Southern Mesopotamia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStorm-Gods of Northern Mesopotamia: Sumerian and Semitic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-Gods of Mesopotamia: Representations of Primary Human Concerns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemitic Storm-Gods of Northern Mesopotamia: Iconographic and Epigraphic Correlations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Highlands of Anatolia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Physical Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Focus of Religion in Prehistoric Anatolia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultural Assemblage in Historic Anatolia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God: Archaeological Pictorial Representations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God on Rock Carvings, Orthostats, and Temples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Anatolian Storm-God in the Written Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God in Hittite Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Syria: The Upper Country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Syrian Physical Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of the Syrian Storm-God in Iconography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God and His Attendants within Syria and Non-Anatolian Peripheral Regions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten Evidence of the Syrian Storm-God outside Syria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHadad in the Historical and Mythical Sources in Syria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaal, the Cloud-Rider\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaal, the Fertility God\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Natural Pattern of the Fertility Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaal-(H)adad in the Cultural Milieu of Ancient Syria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Coastal Canaan: A Land Bridge between the Continents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Region and Culture of Canaan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Background of Yahwism in the Canaanite Milieu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Deity Yahweh in the Earliest Extrabiblical Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYahweh in the Earliest Nonpoetic and Poetic Sources\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchaic Poetic Historical References to Yahweh as the Canaanite God El\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYahweh, the Hebrew Storm-God\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God Yahweh within the Canaanite Milieu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Storm-God and His Associates: Summary and Conclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God as a Force in Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God as the Foundation of Political Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Storm-God and the Evolving Religious Process\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndexes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Scripture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Personal Names\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Divine Names and Epithets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Places\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Topics\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188731797847,"sku":"9781575060699","price":51.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-storm-god-in-the-ancient-near-east-9781575060699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}