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Author Petersen, Allan Rosengren.

Title The royal God : enthronement festivals in ancient Israel and Ugarit? / Allan Rosengren Petersen
Published Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (121 pages) : maps
Series Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 259
Copenhagen international seminar ; 5
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 259.
Copenhagen international seminar ; 5.
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 AKITU FESTIVAL; Chapter 7 CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-115)-and indexes
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Subject Mowinckel, Sigmund, 1884-1965. Psalmenstudien
Hvidberg, Flemming Friis, 1897-1959. Weeping and laughter in the Old Testament
Kapelrud, Arvid S., 1912-1994. Baal in the Ras Shamra texts
Gaster, Theodor Herzl, 1906-1992. Thespis
Caquot, André. Problèmes d'histoire religieuse
Gese, Hartmut. Religionen Altsyriens, Altarabiens und der Mandäer
Kinet, Dirk. Theologische Reflexion im Ugaritischen Baal-Zyklus
SUBJECT Jahwe gnd
Baal gnd
Bible. Psalms -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Psalms fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Bible. A.T Psaumes (latin -- commentaires. ram
Subject Ugaritic language -- Texts
Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Wisdom Literature.
Religion
Ugaritic language
Ugaritic literature -- Relation to the Old Testament
Krönungsritus
Inthronisation
Kroningen.
Littérature ougaritique -- Relation avec l'Ancien Testament.
SUBJECT Ugarit (Extinct city) -- Religion
Subject Syria -- Ugarit (Extinct city)
Ugarit
Israel Altertum
Ougarit (ville ancienne) -- Histoire religieuse.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Texts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567651907
0567651908
1281814180
9781281814180
9786611814182
6611814183