The storm-god in the ancient Near East

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...

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Main Author: Green, Alberto Ravinell Whitney
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns, 2003.
Series:Biblical and Judaic studies ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Storm gods > Middle East.
Gods, Semitic.
Middle East > Religion.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • 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  • Archaic poetic historical references to Yahweh as the Canaanite God El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.

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