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Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic

Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel

Frank Moore Cross author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:1st Oct '97

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The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel’s religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Cross’s classic work is…an essential element in the armory of any serious biblical scholar… If you haven’t got it, get it! It is profound, definitive, and wonderfully readable. -- J. Harold Ellens * Journal of Psychology and Christianity *
The essays in this study are all written with the complementary breadth of scope and attention to detail characteristic of Cross; each one is stimulating and several are a mine of information beyond the confines of the essay’s topic. -- Bezalel Porten * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
Deserves to be read carefully and to be digested slowly… [This] book is full of fertile and productive theories. -- P. Wernberg-Moller * Journal of Jewish Studies *

ISBN: 9780674091764

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 553g

394 pages