A Rift in the Clouds - van Korpel

This book (over 700 pages) deals with the various metaphors which are used to describe divinities in the Hebrew Bible and in the Ugaritic texts. The author has arranged the metaphors semantically under the head- ings of anthropomorphic (metaphors which contain human properties, social relations, life and death, accessories of life, and occupations), therio- morphic (gods in the form of animals), and physiomorphic (gods in the form of inanimate thinglike stones, mountains, trees, and plants) descriptions of the gods. Each section is prefaced by a list of the Ugaritic and Hebrew words to be discussed in that section. Where the Ugaritic and Hebrew words are considered to be parallel, they are highlighted in a table illustrating the par- allels. The volume is supplemented by three helpful indexes: of Ugaritic words; of Hebrew and Aramaic words; and of subjects.Gebonden, 721 blz. Als nieuw.
ISBN 9783927120075.