Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
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Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
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The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. 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.
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