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The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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The Storm-God in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
Series: Biblical and Judaic Studies from the University of California, San Diego
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In this comprehensive study of a common deity found in the ancient
Near East as well as many other cultures, Green brings together
evidence from the worlds of myth, iconography, and literature in an
attempt to arrive at a new synthesis regarding the place of the
Storm-god. He finds that the Storm-god was the force primarily
responsible for three major areas of human concern: (1) religious
power because he was the ever-dominant environmental force upon
which peoples depended for their very lives; (2) centralized
political power; and (3) continuously evolving sociocultural
processes, which typically were projected through the Storm-god's
attendants. Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian,
Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; with regard to the
latter, he argues that Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a
storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be
associated with him: he was the Creator of all that is created and
the self-existing god who needs no other.
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