The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament
The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament

The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament

by Richard J. Clifford

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Pages 236
Publisher Wipf & Stock
Published 2010
ISBN-13 9781608997176
The term "cosmic mountain" is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived from ancient Mesopotamian sources. The book offers a critique of the concept, especially as it has been applied to West Semitic religion, chiefly that witnessed to in Ugaritic texts and the Bible. Chapter 2 examines the connection of various Ugaritic deities to sacred mountains--El, Baal, Mot, Anat, and other deities. Chapter 3 studies the concept in Genesis, in the Sinai and Zion traditions, and in the Solomonic Temple. The last chapter looks at the concept in some literature of Early Judaism.

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