The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament
The term cosmic mountain is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived from ancient Mesopotamian sources. The book offers a critique of the concept, especially as it has been applied to West Semitic religion, chiefly that witnessed to in Ugaritic texts and the Bible. Chapter 2 examines the connection of various Ugaritic deities to sacred mountains--El, Baal, Mot, Anat, and other deities. Chapter 3 studies the concept in Genesis, in the Sinai and Zion traditions, and in the Solomonic Temple. The last chapter looks at the concept in some literature of Early Judaism.Richard J. Clifford, S.J. is…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60899-717-6
- EAN: 9781608997176
- Produktnummer: 10039791
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.2 cm 303 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 303
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