Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic

by Cross, Frank Moore

• ISBN13: 9780674091764
• ISBN10: 0674091760
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xv
I The Religion of Canaan and the God of Israel	1	(76)
1 The God of the Fathers	3	(10)
2 'El and the God of the Fathers	13	(31)
'El in the Ugaritic Pantheon	13	(2)
The Epithets of 'El	15	(5)
'El in the Canaanite Myth	20	(4)
'El and Ba`l Hamon	24	(12)
The Abode of 'El	36	(3)
'El the Divine Patriarch	39	(5)
3 Yahweh and 'El	44	(33)
'El in the Bible	44	(2)
'El Epithets in Patriarchal Narratives	46	(14)
The Name Yahweh	60	(17)
II The Cultus of the Israelite League	77	(68)
4 Prolegomena	79	(12)
The Myth and Ritual School	82	(1)
The History-of-Redemption School	83	(8)
5 The Divine Warrior	91	(21)
Psalm 24 and the Warrior-King	91	(8)
The "Ritual Conquest"	99	(6)
Transformations of the "Ritual Conquest"	105	(7)
6 The Song of the Sea and Canaanite Myth	112	(33)
The Mythic Cycle of Ba`l and `Anat	112	(9)
The Song of the Sea	121	(24)
III League and Kingdom	145	(72)
7 Yahweh and Ba`l	147	(48)
The Theophany of Ba`l	147	(9)
The Storm Theophany in the Bible	156	(7)
The Revelation at Sinai	163	(6)
History of the Tradition of the Storm Theophany	169	(8)
'El's Modes of Revelation	177	(9)
Yahweh and the Council of the Gods	186	(4)
Ba`l versus Yahweh	190	(5)
8 The Priestly Houses of Early Israel	195	(22)
The Classical View of Israel's Early Priesthood	195	(3)
The Function of the Stories of Conflict	198	(8)
The Priestly Genealogies	206	(1)
The Priests of David's National Shrine	207	(10)
IV Kings and Prophets	217	(74)
9 The Ideologies of Kingship in the Era of the Empire:	219	(55)
Conditional Covenant and Eternal Decree	219	(1)
The Limited Monarchy of Saul and Monarchy in the Northern Kingdom	219	(10)
Davidic Kingship	229	(8)
The Imperial Rule of Solomon	237	(4)
The Judaean Royal Theology	241	(23)
The Typology of the Royal Ideology	264	(1)
A Brief Excursus on berit, "Covenant"	265	(9)
10 The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History	274	(17)
The Contemporary Discussion of the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History	274	(4)
The Two Themes of the First Edition of the Deuteronomistic History (Dtr(1))	278	(7)
The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History (Dtr(2))	285	(2)
The Two Editions of the Deuteronomistic History	287	(4)
V Exile and Apocalyptic	291	(58)
11 The Priestly Work	293	(33)
The So-Called P-Source of the Pentateuch	293	(2)
The P System of Covenants	295	(6)
Is P a Narrative Source?	301	(20)
Documents Used by P	321	(1)
Archaizing Language in P	322	(1)
The Date of P	323	(1)
The Composition of the Priestly Work	324	(2)
12 The Early History of the Apocalyptic Community at Qumran	326	(23)
The Archaeological Context of the Qumran	326	(4)
Qumran and the Essenes	330	(2)
The Essenes: Priestly Apocalyptists	332	(2)
Essene Origins	334	(9)
A Note on the Study of Apocalyptic Origins	343	(6)
Index of Biblical Citations	349	(15)
Index of Ugaritic Citations	364	(2)
Index of Technical Terms	366	(1)
Index of Authors	367	(4)
General Index	371