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Article: Bernhard Lang, The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity.(Book Review)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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New Haven, CT/London, UK: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 246. Cloth, $59.95.
We have come to anticipate significant critical and creative insights from Bernhard Lang over the years; his contributions to our understandings of religious development in ancient Israel have been seminal. Relying upon the work of Georges Dumezil, a renown scholar in the history of religions, Lang classifies the different ways in which the First Testament portrays Yahweh. Dumezil suggests that among polytheists deities who be arranged in three levels: wise deities who rule (First Function), warrior deities (Second Function), and fertility deities (Third Function), which correspond ...