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Review of Hermann Gunkel, Water for a Thirsty Land: Israelite Literature and Religion
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2003 Beth Tanner
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A Metallurgical Perspective on the Birth of Ancient Israel
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 The re-emergence of the copper industry in the Arabah valley between the twelfth and ninth centuries BCE stimulated wealth and economic development across the whole Southern Levant.
Nissim Amzallag
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On Deserted Landscapes and Divine Iconography: Iconographic Perspectives on the Origins of YHWH
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 In light of three important trends and developments within recent research—first, the interpretation, the dating and the literary growth of the second commandment (Exod 20:4 ‖ Deut 5:8); second, the reevaluation of ancient Israel’s origins; and, third ...
Katharina Pyschny
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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]
, 2012 An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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Moses: Freud's ultimate project
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2016 Moses and Monotheism was the last work of Sigmund Freud, known as the founder of psychoanalysis. It is not a study of psychoanalytical issues, but mainly a study of the biblical figure Moses, albeit with psychoanalytical applications.
Risto Olavi Nurmela
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When and from Where did YHWH Emerge? Some Reflections on Early Yahwism in Israel and Judah
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2021 The paper addresses two crucial questions of the history of Israelite religion. Did YHWH emerge in the southern steppe and when did YHWH become the God of Judah?
Christian Frevel
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The Problem of Magic and Monotheism in the Book of Leviticus
Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2008 The article deals with some of the theses advanced in Mary Douglas’s later works (In the Wilderness, Leviticus as Literature, and Jacob’s Tears), and in particular with her claim that magic and divination were outlawed in the priestly conceptions of the ...
Rüdiger Schmitt
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Cult Statuary in the Judean Temple at Yeb [PDF]
, 2016 A revisitation of the Yeb archives with an eye to the question of cult statuary. The present article inventories the state of the question and makes several constructive suggestions.
Collin Cornell
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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