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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?

Free Download Clarke Owens, "Son of Yahweh: The Gospels As Novels"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1782790675 | EPUB | pages: 153 | 2.0 mb
What if we pretended that the gospels were stories with beginning, middle, and end; set in a world similar to our own; and requiring consistent character development?How would the image of crucifixion be understood by a Palestinian population in the First Century, C.E.?Why do Peter and John witness Jesus raising a dead child to life in one scene, and in the next, ask each other what resurrection means?How does the story of Lazarus originate from a parable about a rich man who is desolate in the afterlife while a poor man is comforted?How does Judas become more and more villainous as stories about him are retold?How does the resurrection myth of the 19th Century Lakota resemble the Christian myth?Why does Peter strike a man dead for refusing to share his wealth with members of a Christian commune?Why is Peter more miraculous than Paul?These are just a few of the questions raised by this provocative and ground-breaking essay which proves that literary study can be truly challenging.