Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Spinti <jspinti AT eisenbrauns.com>]

Karl,

There are the tablets from Ugarit which contain many ritual texts and god 
lists, plus you have the treaties from Hatti and other places that include 
god lists at the end. From these we can surmise the pantheon of the 
Canaanites. Michael Heiser has done some work on it, but his dissertation 
isn't published. 

Also, you might want to check out this:
Among the Host of Heaven: The Syro-Palestinian Pantheon as Bureaucracy
by Lowell K. Handy 
Eisenbrauns, 1994 
http://www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HANAMONG

I believe there is a preview available on Google books in case you don't have 
access to it via a library. My mind blanks right now on other books that deal 
with the pantheon in ancient Canaan, but there are a number of them. Perhaps 
Pardee's book on Ugaritic Ritual Texts? I'm fairly sure the French version 
does, but can't remember if the WAWSBL one does. 

HTH,
James
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On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:56 PM, K Randolph wrote:

> George:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, George Athas 
> <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>wrote:
> 
>> Don appears to be reading Gen 14 against a henotheistic background in which
>> cities and/or countries were associated with the worship of a particular
>> deity.
> 
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> But he is taking it out of the context of Genesis where Melchizedek’s El
> Elion is the universal God, not limited to a particular city and/or country.
> Thus he is not the same deity that the Canaanites worshipped.
> 
> Are there any surviving Canaanite or west Semitic documents from Abraham’s
> time or earlier that indicate the deities that the Canaanites worshipped, or
> are the only documents that survive date from centuries later when a local
> El Elion was a dim and corrupted memory of the universal God taught by
> Melchizedek?
> 
> 
>> …
>> 
>> GEORGE ATHAS
>> Director of Postgraduate Studies,
>> Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au)
>> Sydney, Australia
>> 
> 
> Karl W. Randolph.
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