TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Spencer L.
TI  - The Splintered Divine: a Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East
T2  - Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER)
SN  - 9781614512363
AV  - BL473 .A45 2015 
U1  - 202.1109394 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Berlin/Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Ishtar
KW  - Baal
KW  - God
KW  - Name
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Nom
KW  - Études comparatives
KW  - Dieu (Judaïsme)
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - Theology
KW  - fast
KW  - Ancient Near Eastern deities
KW  - Divine epithets
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-341) and indexes; 0 Introduction; 0.1 Ištar-of-Nineveh and Ištar-of-Arbela; 0.2 Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity; 0.3 Outline and Method; 1 Considering Multiplicity and Defining Deity; 1.1 An Early History of Identifying and Equating Divine Names; 1.2 Toward Minimizing Multiplicity; 1.3 Toward Maximizing Multiplicity; 1.4 Agency, Names, Offerings, and Rituals; 1.5 Conclusions; Excursus: "Syncretism"; 2 Comparative Insights; 2.1 The Multiple Manifestations of the Madonna; 2.2 Hittite Multiplicity; 2.3 Conclusions; 3 The Divine Hierarchy and Embedded God Lists (EGLs)3.1 Moving Away from Lexical God Lists; 3.2 The Last Are Least; 3.3 Building Composite God Lists; 3.4 Witness-List Traditions; 3.5 Personal and Royal Correspondence; 3.6 Cultic Texts and EGLs; 3.7 Implications for the Present Study; 4 The Ištar Goddesses of Neo-Assyria; 4.1 The Ištar Goddesses by Several Other Names and Titles; 4.2 Theological Speculations about Ištar Goddesses; 4.3 The Goddess at Nineveh; 4.4 The Goddess at Arbela; 4.5 Who is Mullissu, and when is she Mullissu?; 4.6 Assyrian-Ištar; 4.8 Conclusions; 5 Geographic Epithets in the West5.1 The Baal Deities of Ugarit; 5.2 Baal-of-Ugarit and the other Baal Deities at Ugarit; 5.3 Baal: Epithet or Name?; 5.4 The Baal Deities of the First Millennium; 5.5 Why is a Baal Deity's Geography Important?; 5.6 First-millennium Goddesses in Northwest Semitic Texts; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 A Kuntillet 'Ajrud Awakening; 6.1 "Hear, O Israel, Yahweh//our-God"; 6.2 The Geographic Origin of Yahweh: Teman; 6.3 Yahweh and the Kingdom of Israel: Samaria; 6.4 Yahweh and the Kingdom of Judah: Zion and the Hosts; 6.5 Yahweh and the bet-Locative; 6.6 Conclusions; 7 Conclusions7.1 Summary; 7.2 Implications; Bibliography; Maps; Appendix: Tables 1.1-7.1; Indices; Primary Texts Index; General Index
N2  - "This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ishtar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel"--
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