The storm-god in the ancient Near East

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    • Green, Alberto Ravinell Whitney

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The storm-god in the ancient Near East

by Alberto R.W. Green

(Biblical and Judaic studies, v. 8)

Eisenbrauns, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-333) and indexes

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内容説明

In this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient Near East as well as many other cultures, Green brings together evidence from the worlds of myth, iconography, and literature in an attempt to arrive at a new synthesis regarding the place of the Storm-god. He finds that the Storm-god was the force primarily responsible for three major areas of human concern: (1) religious power because he was the ever-dominant environmental force upon which peoples depended for their very lives; (2) centralized political power; and (3) continuously evolving sociocultural processes, which typically were projected through the Storm-god's attendants. Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; with regard to the latter, he argues that Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the Creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other.

目次

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Anatolian Storm-God in the Written Sources The Storm-God in Hittite Mythology Summary Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 6. Bibliography Indexes Index of Scripture Index of Authors Index of Personal Names Index of Divine Names and Epithets Index of Places Index of Topics

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