Mighty Baal : : essays in honor of Mark S. Smith / / edited by Stephen C. Russell, Esther J. Hamori.

• Superior document: Harvard Semitic Studies ; 66
• TeilnehmendeR: Russell, Stephen C.,; Hamori, Esther J.,; Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Semitic Studies ; 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as powerless, the combined archaeological, iconographic, and literary evidence makes it clear that Baal was worshipped throughout the Levant as a god whose powers rivalled any deity. Mighty Baal brings together eleven essays written by scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. Essays in part one focus on the main collection of Ugaritic tablets describing Baal’s exploits, the Baal Cycle. Essays in part two treat Baal’s relationships to other deities. Together, the essays offer a rich portrait of Baal and his cult from a variety of methodological perspectives.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Stephen C. Russell -- The Baal cycle as a myth of cosmic unification / Robert S. Kawashima -- Fight like a girl : the performance of gender and violence in the Baal cycle / Corrine Carvalho -- Male agency and masculine performance in the Baal cycle / Martti Nissinen -- Active and reactive bodies in the Baal cycle / Deena Grant -- The grammar of Baal's epithets / Steven E. Fassberg -- Where are all the colophons? Colophons in the ancient Near East and in the Dead Sea scrolls / Sidnie White Crawford -- Gods in translation and location / Ronald Hendel -- Ugaritic Athtartu Šadi, food production, and textiles : more data for reassessing the biblical portrayal of Aštart in context / Theodore J. Lewis -- Yahweh among the Baals : Israel and the storm gods / Daniel E. Fleming -- Who is the Baal of Peor? / Susan Ackerman -- Baal's legacy : echoes of Ugarit in Papyrus Amherst 63 / Karel van der Toorn.