Sea and the Combat Myth: North West Semitic Political Mythology in the Hebrew Bible. (AOAT 457) Karum xxviii + 733 pp

xxviii + 733 pp

Uruk and Sippar and central Babylonia / 2

von den syro-palästinischen Vasallen Ägyptens benutzte Sprache

wie sie zusammengesetzt sind

vi + 205 pp

Sea and the Combat Myth: North West Semitic Political Mythology in the Hebrew Bible. (AOAT 457) Karum xxviii + 733 ppJoanna Tyrnvuori ISBN: 978 3 86835 279 5 Pub: 2018 xiv + 621 pp. Sea and the Combat Myth examines the political use of the ancient North West Semitic myth of divine combat between the Storm God and the Sea. The myth originated with the rise of the Sargonic Empire and was disseminated across ancient Near Eastern polities during the Amorite Kingdom period. Vestiges of the myth have also been retained in the Hebrew Bible: a myth of symbolic combat