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 ________________________________ James Spinti Marketing Director, Book Sales Division Eisenbrauns, Good books for more than 35 years Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com Phone: 574-269-2011 ext 226 Fax: 574-269-6788 On Aug 17, 2011, at 12:56 PM, K Randolph wrote: > George: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:42 PM, George Athas > <[email protected]>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. > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
