LEADER 05618nam 22008294a 450 001 9910818577903321 005 20240416062959.0 010 $a0-19-516768-6 010 $a0-19-803081-9 010 $a9786610473267 010 $a1-4237-2650-2 010 $a1-280-47326-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000299970 035 $a(EBL)3051911 035 $a(OCoLC)191952724 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000088602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426875 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10082973 035 $a(PQKB)10166877 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001147819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12443394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001147819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11142142 035 $a(PQKB)10601169 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074759 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051911 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051911 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10087100 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL47326 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7034266 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000299970 100 $a19991123d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe origins of biblical monotheism $eIsrael's polytheistic background and the Ugaritic texts /$fMark S. Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-513480-X 311 $a0-19-983465-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-302) and indexes. 327 $aContents; Abbreviations, Terms, and Sigla; Introduction; 1. The Scope of This Study; 2. Issues in Discussing Monotheism and Polytheism; 3. Problems with the Term ""Canaanite""; 4. More Cautionary Notes: Literature, History, Theology, Myth; PART I: THE STRUCTURES OF DIVINITY; 1 Anthropomorphic Deities and Divine Monsters; 1. Place: Near, Foreign, and Far; 2. Blessing at Home and Abroad versus Destruction; 3. Animals: Domesticated versus Monsters; 4. The Head God and His Beloved Monsters; 5. Israelite Cosmic Enemies Tamed and Denied; 2 The Divine Council; 1. The Language of Council 327 $a2. The Assemblies of El and Baal3. The Divine Council and Its Four Tiers; 4. Israel and the Tiers of the Pantheon; 3 The Divine Family; 1. The Four Tiers of the Divine Household; 2. The Royal Patriarchal Household as Model for the Pantheon; 3. The Astral Background of El's Family in Ugaritic and Israelite Literatures and Baal's Outsider Status; 4 Pluralities, Pairings, and Other Divine Relations; 1. Baal, Resheph, Yahweh, and Their Retinues; 2. Dead Rephaim and Kings, and the Power of Death in Life; 3. Pairings: Making Associations 327 $a4. Divine Possession and the Problem of Yahweh and His Consort5. Re-presentation of Divinity: Athtart as the ""Name of Baal""; 6. Divinized Qualities of Deities; 7. Extension of Divinity: Cultic Places and Things; 8. Afterword: The Conceptual Unity of Ugaritic Polytheism; PART II: CHARACTERISTICS OF DIVINITY; 5 The Traits of Deities; 1. Strength and Size; 2. Body and Gender; 3. Holiness; 4. Immortality; 5. Postscript: Divine and Human Life (Or, My Breakfast with Shulamit); 6 The Life and Death of Baal; 1. Frazer's Hypothesis about ""Dying and Rising Gods""; 2. Problems with the Category 327 $a3. The So-Called Dying and Rising Gods4. Foundations for a Theory of Baal's Death and Return to Life; 5. The Conceptual Ideology in Baal's Life and Death; 6. The Mythology of Death and the God of Israel; PART III: THE ORIGINS OF MONOTHEISM IN THE BIBLE; 7 El, Yahweh, and the Original God of IsraEL and the Exodus; 1. El in the Bronze Age; 2. El in Iron Age Phoenicia; 3. El in Iron Age Aram and Transjordan; 4. El in Iron Age Israel; 5. Was El Israel's Original God?; 6. The Question of Yahweh's Original Character; 7. Was El the Original God of the Exodus? 327 $a8 The Emergence of Monotheistic Rhetoric in Ancient Judah1. Defining Monotheism; 2. The Relative Infrequency and Rhetorical Purpose of Monotheistic Statements; 3. The Prior Context of Judean Discourse about Divinity; 4. The National God and Royal Ideology; 5. The Social and Historical Context of Monotheism; 9 The Formation of Monotheistic Theologies in Biblical Literature; 1. Creation, Paradise, and the Priesthood; 2. Wisdom and the Levites; 3. Apocalyptic Literature: The Case of Daniel 7; 4. From ""Canaanite Myth"" to Biblical Monotheism?; 10 Monotheism in Isaiah 40-55 327 $a1. The Polemical Context of Isaiah 40-55 330 8 $aOne of the leading scholars of ancient West Semitic religion discusses polytheism vs. monotheism by covering the fluidity of those categories in the ancient Near East. He argues that Israel's social history is key to the development of monotheism. 606 $aGod$xBiblical teaching 606 $aUgaritic literature$xRelation to the Old Testament 606 $aMonotheism$zPalestine$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aGod (Judaism)$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aGods, Semitic 615 0$aGod$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aUgaritic literature$xRelation to the Old Testament. 615 0$aMonotheism$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aGod (Judaism)$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aGods, Semitic. 676 $a296.3/11/0901 700 $aSmith$b Mark S.$f1955-$01101768 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818577903321 996 $aThe origins of biblical monotheism$93987016 997 $aUNINA