Critically tests Mowinckel's hypothesis about the 'enthronement
festival of Yahweh' and asks whether this theory finds any support in
the epic literature of Ugarit. Petersen tests Sigmund Mowinckel's
classical hypothesis about the enthronement festival of Yahweh and
especially whether this theory, as urged by the followers of
Mowinckel, finds any support in the epic literature of Ugarit. A
careful study of the two corpora of texts, the Old Testament Psalms
and the Ugaritic Baal-cycle, together with a discussion of the
methodology of the cultic interpretation, shows the weaknesses of the
hypothesis. In the history of scholarship, the idea of an enthronement
festival of Marduk has been arbitrarily transferred from Babylon to
Jerusalem and hence to Ugarit with little basis in the relevant texts.
In fact, the method of 'cultic interpretation' is to be rejected,
since its circularity of argumentation determines the result of the
analysis beforehand.
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9780567651907
Publisert
2020
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Sheffield Academic Press
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Engelsk
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