LEADER 03129nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910827984203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-57506-616-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575066165 035 $a(CKB)2550000000052387 035 $a(OCoLC)792739361 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495940 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542807 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340047 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542807 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511402 035 $a(PQKB)10829051 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155585 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495940 035 $a(OCoLC)922991662 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79421 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155585 035 $a(DE-B1597)584043 035 $a(OCoLC)1266227861 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575066165 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000052387 100 $a20110225d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aYahweh's coming of age /$fJason Bembry 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWinona Lake, Ind. $cEisenbrauns$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (173 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 1 $a1-57506-172-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $apt. 1. Old age in biblical and Ugaritic literature. The biblical evidence -- The Ugaritic evidence -- pt. 2. Aging Yahweh. Why Yahweh is not old -- Yahweh comes of age. 330 $aIn the Judeo-Christian tradition, the deity YHWH is often portrayed as an old man. One of the epithets used of YHWH in the Hebrew Bible, the Ancient of Days, is a source for this depiction of God as elderly. Yet, when we look closely at the early traditions of biblical Israel, we see a different picture: God is relatively youthful, a warrior who defends his people. This book is an examination of the question: How did God become old? The transformation from young deity to Ancient of Days took place at the intersection of two trajectories in the traditions of Israel. One trajectory is reflected in the way that apocalyptic traditions found in the book of Daniel recast the old Canaanite mythic imagery seen in the Ugaritic and early biblical texts. This trajectory allows YHWH to take on qualities, such as old age, that were not associated with him during most of Israel's history but were associated with El in the Canaanite traditions. The second trajectory, a depiction of Israel's God as elderly, is connected with the development of the idea of YHWH as father. The more comfortable the biblical tradents became with portraying YHWH as a father a metaphor that was not embraced in the early traditions the easier it became for the people of Israel to think of YHWH as occupying a stage of the human life cycle. 606 $aGod (Judaism)$xAge 615 0$aGod (Judaism)$xAge. 676 $a296.3/112 700 $aBembry$b Jason$01605344 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827984203321 996 $aYahweh's Coming of Age$93930531 997 $aUNINA