The Splintered Divine: A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East

by Spencer Allen

Book Overview

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Istar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501515756
• ISBN13: 9781501515750
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"