Free Download Yahweh Versus Baal: A Conflict of Religious Culture by Norman C. Habel
English | December 4, 2018 | ISBN: 1532676891, 1532662777 | True PDF | 128 pages | 11.5 MB
Since 1929, scholars have been concerned with the interpretation of certain Canaanite literary materials found at Ras Shamra in North Syria, known as Ugarit in ancient times. Attention has been paid, primarily, to certain linguistic and cultural parallels between this corpus of literature and sections of the Old Testament. But despite the numerous treatments of the isolated points of contact between Ugaritic and biblical thought, one major question has not received an adequate answer. How and to what extent are the Ugaritic texts, and especially the Baal texts, relevant for an appreciation of the fundamentals of the Israelite religion?