Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the

ISBN: 0674091752

Author: Cross Jr., Frank Moore

Condition: new

The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel's religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Used Book in Good Condition