The Myth of Môt and ʼAlʼeyan Baʻal

The myth of Môt and ʼAlʼeyan Baʻal, who is Hadad, recounted in the texts unearthed at Ugarit, is a work of the schematizing imagination, and expressive of the ordered relations of natural phenomena conceived as embodied in gods. The systematic organization of the events in which the gods are caught,...

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Authors: Jacobs, Vivian (Author) ; Jacobs, Isaac Rosensohn (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1945
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1945, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 77-109
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