The myth of cosmic rebellion : : a study of its reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical literature / / by Hugh Rowland Page, Jr.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; Volume 65
• Author: Page, Hugh Rowland.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 65; Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 65.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction /; Review of Scholarship /; Concordance of Textual Evidence /; Rationale for Selected Sample /; Athtar-An Overview /; Athtar-A Reconsideration of Ugaritic Data /; Cra Reflexes in the Hebrew Bible-An Analysis /; Summary of Hebrew Evidence /; Proto-Cra-A Preliminary Reconstruction /; Conclusion /; Key Elements in Purported Biblical References of Proto-Cra and Selected Ugaritic Texts415 /; Ugaritic Elements-Proto-Cra Biblical Reflexes /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-231) and index.
• ISBN: 9004275894
• ISSN: 0083-5889
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Hugh Rowland Page, Jr.

This volume examines reflexes of a West Semitic myth describing an attempted coup against the high god of the pantheon. In 1939, J. Morgenstern theorized that this myth was the precursor of the Satan traditions found in Jewish and Christian sources. This treatment (1) reconsiders Morgenstern's hypothesis, (2) reviews scholarship on this myth of cosmic rebellion within the W.F. Albright/F.M. Cross, Jr. lineage, (3) compiles a concordance of texts cited by scholars in analyzing the myth, (4) considers the possibility that Athtar is the myth's divine antihero, (5) provides a translation and close reading of selected Ugaritic and Hebrew texts that have informed discussion about the myth, (6) reassesses the value of these texts, and (7) provides a reconstruction of the myth.