num_pages: 198
description: Critically tests Mowinckel's hypothesis about the 'enthronement festival of Yahweh' and asks whether this theory finds any support in the epic literature of Ugarit. Petersen tests Sigmund Mowinckel's classical hypothesis about the enthronement festival of Yahweh and especially whether this theory as urged by the followers of Mowinckel finds any support in the epic literature of Ugarit. A careful study of the two corpora of texts the Old Testament Psalms and the Ugaritic Baal-cycle together with a discussion of the methodology of the cultic interpretation shows the weaknesses of the hypothesis. In the history of scholarship the idea of an enthronement festival of Marduk has been arbitrarily transferred from Babylon to Jerusalem and hence to Ugarit with little basis in the relevant texts. In fact the method of 'cultic interpretation' is to be rejected since its circularity of argumentation determines the result of the analysis beforehand.
language: English
title: The Royal God: Enthronement Festivals in Ancient Israel and Ugarit?
publisher: UNKNO