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Mighty Baal

Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Stephen C. Russell, Esther J. Hamori, Stephen C. Russell, Esther J. Hamori, Stephen Russell, Stephen C Russell, Esther J Hamori

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Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as powerless, the combined archaeological, iconographic, and literary evidence makes it clear that Baal was worshipped throughout the Levant as a god whose powers rivalled any deity. Mighty Baal brings together eleven essays written by scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. Essays in part one focus on the main collection of Ugaritic tablets describing Baal’s exploits, the Baal Cycle. Essays in part two treat Baal’s relationships to other deities. Together, the essays offer a rich portrait of Baal and his cult from a variety of methodological perspectives.The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-07-16
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt466 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHarvard Semitic Studies
Antal sidor212
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004437661

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Stephen C. Russell, Ph.D. (2008), New York University, is Associate Professor of History at John Jay College, CUNY. His publications include Space, Land, Territory and the Study of the Bible (Brill, 2017) and The King and the Land (Oxford, 2016).Esther J. Hamori, Ph.D. (2004), New York University, is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary. Her publications include Women's Divination in Biblical Literature (Yale University Press, 2015) and When Gods Were Men (de Gruyter, 2008).

Acknowledgments ViiList of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionStephen C. RussellPart 1: Baal’s Story1 The Baal Cycle as a Myth of Cosmic UnificationRobert S. Kawashima2 Fight Like a Girl: the Performance of Gender and Violence in the Baal CycleCorrine Carvalho3 Male Agency and Masculine Performance in the Baal CycleMartti Nissinen4 Active and Reactive Bodies in the Baal CycleDeena Grant5 The Grammar of Baal’s EpithetsSteven E. Fassberg6 Where Are All the Colophons? Colophons in the Ancient Near East and in the Dead Sea ScrollsSidnie White CrawfordPart 2: Baal’s Peers7 Gods in Translation and LocationRonald Hendel8 Ugaritic Athtartu Šadi, Food Production, and Textiles: More Data for Reassessing the Biblical Portrayal of Aštart in ContextTheodore J. Lewis9 Yahweh among the Baals: Israel and the Storm GodsDaniel E. Fleming10 Who Is the Baal of Peor?Susan Ackerman11 Baal’s Legacy: Echoes of Ugarit in Papyrus Amherst 63Karel van der ToornIndex

“This important volume containing eleven essays by colleagues and pupils of Mark Smith presents the reader an excellent overview of recent research on the Ugaritic god Baal as a fitting tribute to Mark Smith, celebrating his sixtyfifth birthday. In offering this gift to him as an expert in this field the editors ran the risk of bringing owls to Athens. However, the different contributions are in most cases renewing and sometimes also take up the discussion with previous work of Smith.(…) This well-edited volume, which is concluded by an index on subjects, can be regarded as a good mix of a Festschrift and a collection of coherent contributions focussing on one subject.” - Klaas Spronk, Protestant Theological University Amsterdam, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N° 5-6, oktober-december 2021