Love Conquers All: Song of Songs 8:6b-7a as a Reflex of the Northwest Semitic Combat Myth
Scholars have often noted YHWH's apparent absence from the Song of Songs. At best, he appears under the name Yah in the difficult and morphologically frozen term ... in Song 8:6. In this article, I go beyond ... to suggest that love plays the role of YHWH in the Song. Using Calvert Watkins'...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Scholar's Press
[2015]
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Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2015, Volume: 134, Issue: 2, Pages: 333-345 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Hoheslied 8,6-7
/ Northwest Semitic language
/ Mythology
/ Theomachie
/ Baal, God
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IxTheo Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
Further subjects: | B
BIBLE. Song of Solomon
B NAME of God in Judaism B Jewish literature B Bible. Old Testament B Christian Literature B SEMITIC mythology B WATKINS, Calvert |
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