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"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 between the Storm-God and the Sea was likely used as a foundational myth by the mostly polytheistic Pre-Exilic kingship in Palestine. The study demonstrates how the myth was used in ancient North West Semitic societies to resolve the crisis of monarchy through appeal to numinous legitimacy, and how reading a selection of Biblical texts in the framework of the tradition confirms the use of the myth in the same context in the emergent Palestinian kingdoms of the Iron Age." Source : from publisher

Mythology, Semitic --- Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Mythology --- Theomachy --- Political aspects --- Bible. --- Sources --- Sources. --- Myth in the Old Testament --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Northern Central Semitic languages --- Northwest Semitic languages --- Northwestern Semitic languages --- Semitic languages, West --- Demythologization --- Myth in the Bible --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Political aspects. --- 221.06 --- 221.06 Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese --- Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese