Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?
Author : David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2024-03-04
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ISBN : 3161612787
Author : David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2024-03-04
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ISBN : 3161612787
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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664253950
In this groundbreaking book, Barker claims that pre-Christian Judaism was not monotheistic and that the roots of Christian Trinitarian theology lie in a pre-Christian Palestinian belief about angels derived from the ancient religion of Israel. Barker's beliefs are based on canonical and deutero-canonical works and literature from Qumran and rabbinic sources.
Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004099951
This volume provides a lengthy introduction and detailed translation and commentary for the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle, which witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.
Author : Frank Moore CROSS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674030087
Annotation 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.
Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN :
In this history of the development of monotheism, the author explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheism with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional scholarly premise that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, he shows that the two cultures were fundamentally similar.
Author : William G. Dever
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1575060817
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, this collection of erudite essays concentrates on the archaeology of ancient Israel, Canaan, and neighboring nations.
Author : John Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567537838
This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament. It is John Day's magnum opus in which he sets forth all his main arguments and conclusions on the subject. The work considers in detail the relationship between Yahweh and the various gods and goddesses of Canaan, including the leading gods El and Baal, the great goddesses (Asherah, Astarte and Anat), astral deities (Sun, Moon and Lucifer), and underworld deities (Mot, Resheph, Molech and the Rephaim). Day assesses both what Yahwism assimilated from these deities and what it came to reject. More generally he discusses the impact of Canaanite polytheism on ancient Israel and how monotheism was eventually achieved.
Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0195167686
One of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism.
Author : Jürgen van Oorschot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110447118
This compendium examines the origins of the God Yahweh, his place in the Syrian-Palestinian and Northern Arabian pantheon during the bronze and iron ages, and the beginnings of the cultic veneration of Yahweh. Contributors analyze the epigraphic and archeological evidence, apply fundamental considerations from the cultural and religious sciences, and analyze the relevant Old Testament texts.
Author : Jonathan N. Tubb
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806131085
Canaanites explores the ancient population of the Western Levant (Israel, Transjordan, Lebanon, and coastal Syria), examining the development of its distinctive culture from the early farming communities of the eighth millennium B.C. to the fragmentation of its social and cultural ideals in the latter half of the first millennium B.C. Jonathan N. Tubb makes judicious use of the Hebrew Bible in describing Canaanite culture. He views the Bible as a rich resource for understanding the literary and theological heritage of Israel, which he classifies as a subculture of Canaan. At the same time he reveals the limitations of the Bible as a historical document, arguing that to reconstruct the Canaanites' history we must first look at the archaeological data. Tubb stresses the continuity of Canaanite civilization, portraying events such as the imposition of Egyptian imperial rule and the development of historical Israel as episodic interruptions.