Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: A Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting FaithsDoubleday, 1988 - 294 Seiten This analysis of contrasting faiths places the religions of Canaan (later Phoenicia) and Israel in their historical settings, treating them as distinct, yet interacting, beliefs. As a prelude to the description of the two religions, the author traces the evolution of poetic style from the Patriarchal Age to the United Monarchy, showing the value of orally transmitted verse for the validation of early Biblical historical tradition. He then demonstrates the Mesopotamian origin of the Patriarchal clans with the aid of new cuneiform date, and shows a close connection between the movement of the Hebrews from the Euphrates Valley through Palestine into Egypt and the work of Moses. Special attention is paid to the early Hebrew family law, the case law of Israel, and the hygienic rules (which are older than commonly thought by scholars). The nature of the Canaanite-Phoenician religion is much clearer than it was a few years ago; its influence on Israel was both greater and less than is usually thought. But the relation was reciprocal, and both gained much in the exchange which set in about the tenth century and continued until the fifth century B.C. |
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B Canaanite Repetitive Style | 4 |
Early Israelite Repetitive Style | 10 |
The JE Complex | 28 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Accad Accadian Amarna Anath ancient Apiru appears appellation Arabic Aramaic archaic Asherah Assyrian Baal Baal Epic Babylonian BASOR Bible biblical Bronze Age Byblos Canaan Canaanite Chapter cosmogony cult culture cuneiform dialects donkey caravaneers Dynasty E. A. Speiser early Egypt Egyptian especially evidence Execration Texts father followed Genesis goddess gods Greek Hebrew Hittite Hobab Hurrian identified inscriptions Israel Israelite JAOS king Late Bronze later lists Mari material meaning Melcarth Mesopotamia Middle millennium B.C. Mosaic Moses myth nomads North-west Semitic original pagan Palestine pantheon passages Patriarchal Pentateuch period personal names Phoenician poem poetic poetry probably prophets Psalm Ramesses II recent references religious repetitive parallelism Resheph rôle SA.GAZ Sanchuniathon scholars Semitic seventh century B.C. Shechem sources Sumerian Syria Taauth tablets temple tion tradition translation treaties tribes tury B.C. Tyre Ugaritic verse vocalization word Yahweh