Book Summary
The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsolved problem in the description of Israel's religious development. The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel's religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Book Details
| Book Name | Canaanite Myth And Hebrew Epic: Essays In The History Of The Religion Of Israel |
| Author | Cross Frank Moore Jr. |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (Sep 1997) |
| ISBN | 9780674091764 |
| Pages | 394 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1386 |
