Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of IsraelThe essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross 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. |
Contents
The God of the Fathers | 3 |
El and the God of the Fathers | 13 |
The Epithets of El | 15 |
El in Canaanite Myth | 20 |
El and Bal Hamōn | 24 |
The Abode of El | 36 |
El the Divine Patriarch | 39 |
Yahweh and El | 44 |
Kings and Prophets | 217 |
The ldeologies of Kingship in the Era of the Empire Conditional Covenant and Eternal Decree | 219 |
Davidic Kingship | 229 |
The Imperial Rule of Solomon | 237 |
The Judaean Royal Theology | 241 |
The Typology of the Royal ldeology | 264 |
A Brief Excursus on befit Covenant | 265 |
The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History | 274 |
El Epithets in Patriarchal Narratives | 46 |
The Name Yahweh | 60 |
The Cultus of the 1sraelite League | 77 |
Prolegomena | 79 |
The Myth and Ritual School | 82 |
The HistoryofRedemption School | 83 |
The Divine Warrior | 91 |
The Ritual Conquest | 99 |
Transformations of the Ritual Conquest | 105 |
The Song of the Sea and Canaanite Myth | 112 |
The Song of the Sea | 121 |
League and Kingdom | 145 |
Yahweh and Bal | 147 |
The Storm Theophany in the Bible | 156 |
The Revelation at Sinai | 163 |
History of the Tradition of the Storm Theophany | 169 |
Els Modes of Revelation | 177 |
Yahweh and the Council of the Gods | 186 |
Bal versus Yahweh | 190 |
The Priestly Houses of Early 1srael | 195 |
The Function of the Stories of Conflict | 198 |
The Priestly Genealogies | 206 |
The Priests of Davids National Shrine | 207 |
The Two Themes of the First Edition of the Deuteronomistic History Dtr¹ | 278 |
The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History Dtr² | 285 |
The Two Editions of the Deuteronomistic History | 287 |
Exile and Apocalyptic | 291 |
The Priestly Work | 293 |
The P System of Covenants | 295 |
Is P a Narrative Source? | 301 |
Documents Used by P | 321 |
Archaizing Language in P | 322 |
The Date of P | 323 |
The Composition of the Priestly Work | 324 |
The Early History of the Apocalyptic Community at Qumrdn | 326 |
Qumran and the Essenes | 330 |
Priestly Apocalyptists | 332 |
Essene Origins | 334 |
A Note on the Study of Apocalyptic Origins | 343 |
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Aaron Aaronid Abraham Ahitub Akkadian Amorite Amurru ancient apocalyptic appears archaic Asherah Ba'l BASOR Bethel biblical blessing Canaan Canaanite century B.C. chapter Chron Conquest context cosmic council covenant creation cult cultic cultus David deity Deuteronomistic history Divine Warrior early Egyptian Eissfeldt El's elements Elohistic Epic tradition epithet Essenes eternal evidence Exilic Exod Exodus F. M. Cross father formula genealogy Genesis Gilgal gods haplography heaven Hebrew holy hymn Inscriptions Isaiah Israel Israelite Jeroboam Jerusalem Joshua Judah Judges Kings kingship language league Moses mountain Mushite myth mythic Nabataean narrative Numbers ôlām oracle original parallel passages patriarchal pattern Phoenician priesthood Priestly source Priestly tradition priests prophecy prophet Psalm Qumrân religion ritual royal ideology Šadday Samuel sanctuary Semitic shrine Sinai Solomon Song sources storm Tabernacle temple tent theme theophany tion Ugaritic verse W. F. Albright wilderness Yahweh Yahwistic Yamm yhwh Zadok Zion