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Foreword to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Recent Research on Deities | |
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Important Trends since 1990 | |
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Theoretical Challenges | |
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Asherah/asherah Revisited | |
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In Retrospect | |
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Acknowledgments (First Edition) | |
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Abbreviations and Sigla | |
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Introduction | |
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The Question of Understanding Israelite Religion | |
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Presuppositions in This Study | |
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Deities in Israel in the Period of the Judges | |
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Israel's "Canaanite" Heritage | |
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Yahweh and El | |
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Yahweh and Baal | |
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Yahweh and Asherah | |
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Convergence of Divine Imagery | |
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Convergence in Israelite Religion | |
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Israel and Its Neighbors | |
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Yahweh and Baal | |
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Baal Worship in Israel | |
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Imagery of Baal and Yahweh | |
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The Role of the Monarchy | |
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Excursus: Yahweh and Anat | |
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Yahweh and Asherah | |
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Distribution in the Biblical Record | |
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The Symbol of the Asherah | |
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The Inscriptional Evidence | |
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Asherah--An Israelite Goddess? | |
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The Assimilation of the Imagery of Asherah | |
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Excursus: Gender Language for Yahweh | |
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Yahweh and the Sun | |
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The Biblical Record | |
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The Role of the Monarchy | |
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The Assimilation of Solar Imagery | |
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Yahwistic Cultic Practices | |
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Yahwistic Cultic Symbols and Sites | |
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Practices Associated with the Dead | |
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The mlk Sacrifice | |
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The Origins and Development of Israelite Monotheism | |
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The Period of the Judges | |
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The First Half of the Monarchy | |
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The Second Half of the Monarchy | |
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The Exile | |
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Israelite Monotheism in Historical Perspective | |
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Postscript: Portraits of Yahweh | |
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Processes Leading to Divine Portraiture in Israel | |
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The Absence of Some Canaanite Divine Roles in the Biblical Record | |
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Indexes of Texts | |
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Biblical Citations | |
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Intertestamental Texts | |
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Post-Biblical Jewish References | |
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Texts from Ugarit | |
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Other Near Eastern Inscriptions | |
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Classical | |
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Index of Authors | |
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General Index | |