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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 | |