Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East : : A Lexical and Contextual Analysis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table Of Contents --; Abbreviations And Symbols --; Preface --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; PART 1: HUMAN HATE --; Chapter 2: The Emotional Extreme of the Spectrum: Literal Hate --; Chapter 3: The Center of the Spectrum: Some Emotion and Some Metaphor --; Chapter 4: The Nonemotive Extreme of the Spectrum: Metaphorical Hate --; PART 2: DIVINE HATE --; Chapter 5: Hate as a Reflex to a Broken Covenant --; Chapter 6: Hate toward the Cult --; Chapter 7: Hate Toward Vice --; Chapter 8: Hate as Part of a God's Unfavorable Portrait --; Chapter 9: Conclusion --; Appendix 1: Hate's Word Field in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian --; Appendix 2: שׂנא in Mal 2:16 --; Appendix 3: zêru in Nisaba and Wheat? --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463237684; 9783110663013
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463237684
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East studies lexemes for 'hate' in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian. Riley conducts a lexical study of three 'hate' terms, along with comparative analysis of divine and human hate in biblical, Ugaritic, and Mesopotamian literature.