The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament Clifford Richard J. Sj
The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament Clifford Richard J. Sj The term cosmic mountain is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived…
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The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament Clifford Richard J. Sj
The term cosmic mountain is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived from ancient Mesopotamian sources. Chapter 2 examines the connection of various Ugaritic deities to sacred mountains--El, Baal, Mot, Anat, and other deities. 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.
The last chapter looks at the concept in some literature of Early Chapter 3 studies the concept in Genesis, in the Sinai and Zion traditions, and in the Solomonic Temple.