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"This volume explores storm-/warrior-god motif as found in non-biblical ANE texts, followed by an analysis of the language and imagery in several noteworthy theophanic passages in the Hebrew Bible. These characteristics and vocabulary are used in later chapters to identify and analyze similar motifs in the Twelve Prophets, especially focusing on Mic 7:7-20; Habakkuk 3; and Zech 9:9-16 as test cases. By tracing the use of the storm-/warrior-god motif and language associated with it, a detectable shift is apparent in the use of the motif in the HB that corresponds with the development of monotheism within Ancient Israelite religion"--

Middle Eastern literature --- Assyro-Babylonian religion --- Storm gods --- War --- God --- Relation to the Old Testament --- Wrath --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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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.

Storm gods --- Gods, Semitic. --- Semitic gods --- Semites --- Gods --- Religion --- Middle East --- Religion. --- Windgott --- Wettergott --- Storm gods. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Naher Osten --- Alter Orient --- Middle East. --- Orient --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Wettergott. --- Sturmgott --- Windgötter --- Götter --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- South West --- Asia --- Naher Orient --- Vorderasien --- Vorderer Orient --- Südwestasien --- Asien --- Nahost --- Moyen-Orient --- Westasien --- Levante --- Südwestasien