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Tables of Contents for Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Abbreviations
xv
I The Religion of Canaan and the God of Israel
1
76
1 The God of the Fathers
3
10
2 'El and the God of the Fathers
13
31
'El in the Ugaritic Pantheon
13
2
The Epithets of 'El
15
5
'El in the Canaanite Myth
20
4
'El and Ba`l Hamon
24
12
The Abode of 'El
36
3
'El the Divine Patriarch
39
5
3 Yahweh and 'El
44
33
'El in the Bible
44
2
'El Epithets in Patriarchal Narratives
46
14
The Name Yahweh
60
17
II The Cultus of the Israelite League
77
68
4 Prolegomena
79
12
The Myth and Ritual School
82
1
The History-of-Redemption School
83
8
5 The Divine Warrior
91
21
Psalm 24 and the Warrior-King
91
8
The "Ritual Conquest"
99
6
Transformations of the "Ritual Conquest"
105
7
6 The Song of the Sea and Canaanite Myth
112
33
The Mythic Cycle of Ba`l and `Anat
112
9
The Song of the Sea
121
24
III League and Kingdom
145
72
7 Yahweh and Ba`l
147
48
The Theophany of Ba`l
147
9
The Storm Theophany in the Bible
156
7
The Revelation at Sinai
163
6
History of the Tradition of the Storm Theophany
169
8
'El's Modes of Revelation
177
9
Yahweh and the Council of the Gods
186
4
Ba`l versus Yahweh
190
5
8 The Priestly Houses of Early Israel
195
22
The Classical View of Israel's Early Priesthood
195
3
The Function of the Stories of Conflict
198
8
The Priestly Genealogies
206
1
The Priests of David's National Shrine
207
10
IV Kings and Prophets
217
74
9 The Ideologies of Kingship in the Era of the Empire:
219
55
Conditional Covenant and Eternal Decree
219
1
The Limited Monarchy of Saul and Monarchy in the Northern Kingdom
219
10
Davidic Kingship
229
8
The Imperial Rule of Solomon
237
4
The Judaean Royal Theology
241
23
The Typology of the Royal Ideology
264
1
A Brief Excursus on berit, "Covenant"
265
9
10 The Themes of the Book of Kings and the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History
274
17
The Contemporary Discussion of the Structure of the Deuteronomistic History
274
4
The Two Themes of the First Edition of the Deuteronomistic History (Dtr(1))
278
7
The Theme of the Exilic Edition of the History (Dtr(2))
285
2
The Two Editions of the Deuteronomistic History
287
4
V Exile and Apocalyptic
291
58
11 The Priestly Work
293
33
The So-Called P-Source of the Pentateuch
293
2
The P System of Covenants
295
6
Is P a Narrative Source?
301
20
Documents Used by P
321
1
Archaizing Language in P
322
1
The Date of P
323
1
The Composition of the Priestly Work
324
2
12 The Early History of the Apocalyptic Community at Qumran
326
23
The Archaeological Context of the Qumran
326
4
Qumran and the Essenes
330
2
The Essenes: Priestly Apocalyptists
332
2
Essene Origins
334
9
A Note on the Study of Apocalyptic Origins
343
6
Index of Biblical Citations
349
15
Index of Ugaritic Citations
364
2
Index of Technical Terms
366
1
Index of Authors
367
4
General Index
371