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The splintered divine : a study of Ishtar, Baal, and Yahweh divine names and divine multiplicity in the ancient Near East / by Spencer Allen

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Allen, Spencer
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Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
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©2015
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Machine generated contents note: 0.Introduction -- 0.1.Istar-of-Nineveh and Istar-of-Arbela -- 0.2.Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity -- 0.3.Outline and Method -- 1.Considering Multiplicity and Defining Deity -- 1.1.An Early History of Identifying and Equating Divine Names -- 1.2.Toward Minimizing Multiplicity -- 1.3.Toward Maximizing Multiplicity -- 1.4.Agency, Names, Offerings, and Rituals -- 1.5.Conclusions -- Excursus: "Syncretism" -- 2.Comparative Insights -- 2.1.The Multiple Manifestations of the Madonna -- 2.2.Hittite Multiplicity -- 2.3.Conclusions -- 3.The Divine Hierarchy and Embedded God Lists (EGLs) -- 3.1.Moving Away from Lexical God Lists -- 3.2.The Last Are Least -- 3.3.Building Composite God Lists -- 3.4.Witness-List Traditions -- 3.5.Personal and Royal Correspondence -- 3.6.Cultic Texts and EGLs -- 3.7.Implications for the Present Study -- 4.The Istar Goddesses of Neo-Assyria -- 4.1.The Istar Goddesses by Several Other Names and Titles -- 4.2.Theological Speculations about Istar Goddesses -- 4.3.The Goddess at Nineveh -- 4.4.The Goddess at Arbela -- 4.5.Who is Mullissu, and when is she Mullissu? -- 4.6.Assyrian-Istar -- 4.7.Two "Istar Goddesses" Who are Not Istar -- 4.8.Conclusions -- 5.Geographic Epithets in the West -- 5.1.The Baal Deities of Ugarit -- 5.2.Baal-of-Ugarit and the other Baal Deities at Ugarit -- 5.3.Baal: Epithet or Name? -- 5.4.The Baal Deities of the First Millennium -- 5.5.Why is a Baal Deity's Geography Important? -- 5.6.First-millennium Goddesses in Northwest Semitic Texts -- 5.7.Conclusions -- 6.A Kuntillet Ajrud Awakening -- 6.1."Hear, O Israel, Yahweh//our-God" -- 6.2.The Geographic Origin of Yahweh: Teman -- 6.3.Yahweh and the Kingdom of Israel: Samaria -- 6.4.Yahweh and the Kingdom of Judah: Zion and the Hosts -- 6.5.Yahweh and the bet-Locative -- 6.6.Conclusions -- 7.Conclusions -- 7.1.Summary -- 7.2.Implications -- Bibliography -- Maps -- Appendix: Tables 1.1--7.1 -- Indices -- Primary Texts Index.
Summary
"This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ishtar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel"--
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9781614512363 (ebook : alk. paper)
1614512361 (ebook : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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