TY - BOOK ID - 50395847 TI - Sea and the combat myth : north west semitic political mythology in the Hebrew Bible PY - 2018 SN - 9783868352795 3868352791 PB - Münster : Ugarit Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Mythology, Semitic KW - Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian KW - Mythology KW - Theomachy KW - Political aspects KW - Bible. KW - Sources KW - Sources. KW - Myth in the Old Testament KW - Semitic languages, Northwest KW - Northern Central Semitic languages KW - Northwest Semitic languages KW - Northwestern Semitic languages KW - Semitic languages, West KW - Demythologization KW - Myth in the Bible KW - Antico Testamento KW - Hebrew Bible KW - Hebrew Scriptures KW - Kitve-ḳodesh KW - Miḳra KW - Old Testament KW - Palaia Diathēkē KW - Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa KW - Sean-Tiomna KW - Stary Testament KW - Tanakh KW - Tawrāt KW - Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim KW - Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim KW - Velho Testamento KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Political aspects. KW - 221.06 KW - 221.06 Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese KW - Oud Testament: hermeneutiek; exegese UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50395847 AB - "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 ER -