The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament

by Richard J. Clifford

Book Overview

The term "cosmic mountain" is a rendering of the nineteenth-century German scholarly designation Weltberg, which was derived from ancient Mesopotamian sources. The book offers a critique of the concept, especially as it has been applied to West Semitic religion, chiefly that witnessed to in Ugaritic texts and the Bible. Chapter 2 examines the connection of various Ugaritic deities to sacred mountains--El, Baal, Mot, Anat, and other deities. Chapter 3 studies the concept in Genesis, in the Sinai and Zion traditions, and in the Solomonic Temple. The last chapter looks at the concept in some literature of Early Judaism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608997170
• ISBN13: 9781608997176
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"