num_pages: 394
description: The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel’s religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
language: English
title: Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
titlecomplete: Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
genres: Religion, Israel, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Old Testament, Theology, Mythology, Judaism, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 82
publisher: Harvard University Press