SUGGESTION: The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
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"The Unbelievable Work...believe it or not." Little children...Biblical prophecy is not Christianity's friend.
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I definitely would recommend the first of these (am reading; don't have the second).
The author of the first, I guess, wants to insure his audience understands which trail he is planning to proceed down. And being a plain-text lover, it's a refreshing trail.
But ignoring that, this book has a lot of hooks into Assyrian/Babylonian god-culture (which resource text Logos carries in quite a few resources). Just looking at Jeremiah's anti-idol logic, you can see why he goes through those specific steps of argument. And there are many examples like this. One I am hoping to pursue is the akkadian destruction of a human spirit by burning, vultures and similar, etc. That would explain 'hanging' on a tree in the OT.
Anyway it would be easier going in Logos (lookups) but quite affordable on Kindle. The title is a bit exagerated.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Glad to know you are getting something out of it. I will probably get both of them next month, when I will be closer to getting into the part of my book that relates to the topic.
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"The Unbelievable Work...believe it or not." Little children...Biblical prophecy is not Christianity's friend.
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