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Mighty Baal

Author: Stephen C. Russell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9004437673

Mighty Baal offers a fresh portrait of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Its eleven essays are written in honor of Mark S. Smith, who has been the leading historian of Baal over the last four decades.

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Author: Mark Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-09-03

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9004275797

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The Ugaritic Baal Cycle offers a translation and the first commentary on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible. The volume treats introductory matters such as date, order and continuity of the tablets, the history of interpretation, and finally a new proposal for the interpretation of text drawing on the insights of previous views as well as newer evidence. The commentary proper provides bibliography, text, textual notes, literary structure and detailed commentary for each column in the first two tablets.

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Author: Mark S. Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9789004099951

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This volume provides a lengthy introduction and detailed translation and commentary for the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle, which witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Author: Aaron Tugendhaft

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1351663771

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Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.

Imagining God

Author: Humberto Casanova

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2020-02-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1532688202

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An ever-growing number of Christians are becoming more and more uncomfortable with the tenets of the church, the stories of the Bible, and the church's worldview. Statistics show that these feelings easily escalate into a crisis of faith, and for now their predicament is being resolved by leaving the church. This book will certainly help dealing with the crisis by showing that the language of faith is built by a web of metaphors taken from the Ancient Near East. We do not need to take biblical language literally, but as parables for human values in need to be assessed critically.

Time Before the Past

Author: Leon Lubelski

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2021-06-11

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1525589156

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When powerful extraterrestrial beings establish life on Zera2, little do they know that they’re guiding the extraordinary birth of the Jewish nation. Journey through the ages of a nation destined to outlive all others, as advanced technology interfaces with the distant past in this biblical fantasy. MM26, an extraterrestrial supreme being, analogous to God, forges the path taken by the Sons of Jacob to become an immortal nation—one that plays an integral role in the development of civilization on Zera2. Time Before the Past opens the reader’s mind to unorthodox and fantastic interpretations of the Pentateuch and unproven explanations of some of the world's mysteries. No matter how you spin it, the path and the destination remain the same. If we are created in His image, maybe the divine powers reside within the collective “us.”