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ancient Near Eastern religion
Author_Nicolas Wyatt
Baal Cycle
BH3
BHS
Burning Bush
Canaanite cosmology
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comparative mythology
Cosmic Ocean
De Moor
El Shaddai
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exilic
Exilic Period
Ezekiel 16
God El
Hebrew Bible origins
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Infant Circumcision
Israelite and Ugaritic religious development
Levantine cultural history
Mythic Mind
period
ritual symbolism
Sabbath Observance
Sacred Marriage
semitic
tradition
Tribal Eponym
ugaritic
Ugaritic Material
Ugaritic Myth
Ugaritic Tradition
Unclean Animals
Van Seters
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West Semitic
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Wyatt 1985b
Wyatt 1995c
Wyatt 2001a
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- ISBN 9781845530433
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Mythic Mind follows the tradition of works which insist on the necessity for a comparative dimension in the study of ancient Israel. The Israelite world-view was essentially a West Semitic world-view in origin, with additional deeply embedded influences from Egypt and Mesopotamia, though it produced its own distinctive character by way of synthesis and reaction. The essays in this volume explore various aspects of this process, historically and cosmologically, commonly challenging received views developed in the treatment of Israel in isolation. The importance of the Ugaritic texts in particular, as reflecting the cultural context in which ancient Israel developed into two symbiotic kingdoms, heirs to a common 'Canaanite' tradition, emerges clearly from such studies as chapter 5: 'Sea and Desert', chapter 7: 'Of Calves and Kings', chapter 9: 'The Significance of Spn' and chapter 10: 'The Vocabulary and Neurology of Orientation.'
N. Wyatt holds a personal chair in Ancient Near Eastern Religions at the University of Edinburgh.
