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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815914803321

Autore

Petersen Allan Rosengren

Titolo

The royal God : enthronement festivals in ancient Israel and Ugarit? / / Allan Rosengren Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1998

ISBN

1-281-81418-0

9786611814182

0-567-65190-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (121 pages) : maps

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 259

Copenhagen international seminar ; ; 5

Disciplina

394.40933

Soggetti

Ugaritic language

Ugaritic literature - Relation to the Old Testament

Ugarit (Extinct city) Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Revised edition of ... prize essay ... delivered to the University of Copenhagen in January 1992.".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 MOWINCKEL'S THEORY OF THE ENTHRONEMENT FESTIVAL OF YAHWEH; Chapter 2 A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF MOWINCKEL'S THEORY ABOUT AN ENTHRONEMENT FESTIVAL OF YAHWEH; Chapter 3 THE ENTHRONEMENT FESTIVAL OF YAHWEH AND THE UGARITIC TEXTS; Chapter 4 INTERPRETATIONS OF THE UGARITIC BAAL-CYCLE; Chapter 5 WHERE DID SCHAEFFER FIND THE CLAY TABLETS OF THE UGARITIC BAAL-CYCLE?; Chapter 6 ENUMA ELISH AND THE AKĪTU FESTIVAL; Chapter 7 CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Critically tests Mowinckel's hypothesis about the 'enthronement festival of Yahweh' and asks whether this theory finds any support in the epic literature of Ugarit. Petersen tests Sigmund Mowinckel's classical hypothesis about the enthronement festival of Yahweh and especially whether this theory, as urged by the followers of Mowinckel, finds any support in the epic literature of Ugarit. A careful study of the two corpora of texts, the Old Testament Psalms and the Ugaritic Baal-cycle,



together with a discussion of the methodology of the cultic interpretation, shows the weaknesses of the hypoth