The storm-god in the ancient Near East /
"The Storm-god was a deity common to every culture in the ancient Near East. In this comprehensive study of the literature, iconography (seals, monuments), and myths related to the Storm-god in its various guises, Alberto Green attempts a new synthesis of the available data. He finds that the S...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2003.
|
Colección: | Biblical and Judaic studies ;
v. 8. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Mesopotamia: the land between two rivers
- Climate and ecology
- Iconography of the Mesopotamian storm-god: prehistoric up to the end of the Old Babylonian Period
- Textual evidence of Sumero-Akkadian storm-gods in southern Mesopotamia
- Storm-gods of Northern Mesopotamia: Sumerian and Semitic
- The storm-gods of Mesopotamia: representations of primary human concerns
- Semitic storm-gods of Northern Mesopotamia: iconographic and epigraphic correlations
- 2. The highlands of Anatolia
- The physical environment
- The focus of religion in prehistoric Anatolia
- Cultural assemblage in historic Anatolia
- The storm-god: archaeological pictorial representations
- The storm-god on rock carvings, orthostats, and temples
- The Antolian storm-god in the written sources
- The storm-god in Hittite mythology
- Summary
- 3. Syria: the upper country
- The Syrian physical environment
- The emergence of the Syrian storm-god in iconography
- The storm-god and his attendants within Syria and non-Anatolian peripheral regions
- Written evidence of the Syrian storm-god outside Syria
- Hadad in the historical and mythical sources in Syria
- Baal, the cloud-rider
- Baal, the fertility god
- The natural pattern of the fertility process
- Baal-(H)adad in the cultural milieu of ancient Syria
- 4. Coastal Canaan: a land bridge between the continents
- The region and culture of Canaan
- The background of Yahwism in the Canaanite milieu
- The deity Yahweh in the earliest extrabiblical sources
- Yahweh in the earliest nonpoetic and poetic sources
- Archaic poetic historical references to Yahweh as the Canaanite God El
- Yahweh, the Hebrew storm-god
- The storm-god Yahweh within the Canaanite milieu
- 5. The storm-god and his associates: summary and conclusions
- The storm-god as a force in nature
- The storm-god as the foundation of political power
- The storm-god and the evolving religious process
- 6. Bibliography.