Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition

Author: Michael D. Coogan
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN: 1611641624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The texts from ancient Ugarit are among the most important modern discoveries for understanding the Bible. For more than thirty years, Stories from Ancient Canaan has been recognized as a highly authoritative and readable presentation of the principal Canaanite myths and epics discovered at Ugarit. This fully revised edition takes into account advances in the reading, understanding, and interpretation of these stories since 1978. It also includes two additional texts, expanded introductions, and illustrations. Coogan and Smith have collaborated to bring this classic up to date in order to provide accessible and accurate translations of these texts for a new generation of students.

Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition

Author: Michael D. Coogan
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664232429
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Stories from Ancient Canaan

Author: Michael David Coogan
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664241841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.

Canaan and Israel in Antiquity: A Textbook on History and Religion

Author: K. L. Noll
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567182584
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
This comprehensive classic textbook represents the most recent approaches to the biblical world by surveying Palestine's social, political, economic, religious and ecological changes from Palaeolithic to Roman eras. Designed for beginners with little knowledge of the ancient world, and with copious illustrations and charts, it explains how and why academic study of the past is undertaken, as well as the differences between historical and theological scholarship and the differences between ancient and modern genres of history writing. Classroom tested chapters emphasize the authenticity of the Bible as a product of an ancient culture, and the many problems with the biblical narrative as a historical source. Neither "maximalist" nor "minimalist'" it is sufficiently general to avoid confusion and to allow the assignment of supplementary readings such as biblical narratives and ancient Near Eastern texts. This new edition has been fully revised, incorporating new graphics and English translations of Near Eastern inscriptions. New material on the religiously diverse environment of Ancient Israel taking into account the latest archaeological discussions brings this book right up to date.

Canaanite Myths and Legends

Author: John C. Gibson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567080897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Tablets of poetic mythological texts unearthed during the excavation of Ugarit have been edited and translated to shed new light on the religion and literature of the ancient world.

The Journey to Canaan

Author: W. F. Washington
Publisher: Christian Living Books
ISBN: 9780971624016
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description

The Canaanites

Author: Mary Ellen Buck
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 149824324X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
The term Canaanite will be familiar to anyone who has even the most casual familiarity with the Bible. Outside of the terminology for Israel itself, the Canaanites are the most common ethnic group found in the Bible. They are positioned as the foil of the nation of Israel, and the land of Canaan is depicted as the promised allotment of Abraham and his descendants. The terms Canaan and Canaanites are even evoked in modern political discourse, indicating that their importance extends into the present. With such prominent positioning, it is important to gain a more complete and historically accurate perspective of the Canaanites, their land, history, and rich cultural heritage. So, who were the Canaanites? Where did they live, what did they believe, what do we know about their culture and history, and why do they feature so prominently in the biblical narratives? In this volume, Mary Buck uses original textual and archaeological evidence to answer to these questions. The book follows the history of the Canaanites from their humble origins in the third millennium BCE to the rise of their massive fortified city-states of the Bronze Age, through until their disappearance from the pages of history in the Roman period, only to find their legacy in the politics of the modern Middle East.

Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan

Author: William Foxwell Albright
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
Professor Albright speaks to a new generation of scholars through this reprint of his classic work contrasting Israelite and Canaanite religions. The five chapters were originally presented as seven lectures and discuss Poetry and Prose, the Patriarchal Background, Canaanite Religion in the Early Bronze Age, the Struggle between Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, and the Religious Cultures of Israel and Phoenicia.

Myths from Mesopotamia

Author: Stephanie Dalley
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199538360
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.

Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic

Author: Frank Moore CROSS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674030087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
Annotation 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.