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Author(s): Debra Scoggins Ballentine
ISBN(s): 9780199370252, 0199370257
Edition: 1
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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Author:  Debra Scoggins Ballentine

There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient political and socio-religious discourses to bolster particular divine hierarchies, kings, institutions, and groups, as well as to attack others. Situating her study of the conflict topos within contemporary theorizations of myth by Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Ballentine examines narratives of divine combat and instances of this conflict motif. Her study cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as constructed time periods, focusing not only on the Hebrew Bible but also incorporating Mesopotamian, early Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic texts, spanning a period of almost three millennia – from the eighteenth century BCE to the early middle ages CE. The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient west Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and of how mythological and religious ideas are used both to validate and render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to delegitimize and invalidate others.

Table of contents: 

1 Theorizing Myth in Ancient West Asian Studies

  • Myth Theory
  • Biblical Scholarship and the Category of Myth
  • Terminology
  • The Ancient West Asian Milieu and the Comparative Enterprise

2 The Conflict Topos in Extant Narratives

  • Anzu
  • Enuma Elish
  • Aššur Version of Enuma Elish
  • Bālu Cycle
  • Comparisons and Narrative Taxonomy
  • Conclusion

3 The Conflict Motif

  • Victorious Warrior Deities: ‘Anatu, Bālu, and Yahweh
  • Yahweh’s Combat Against the Sea/Dragon and Its Relevance for Humans
  • Divine Combat within Historiography: Combined Conflict and Exodus Motifs
  • Yahweh versus Human Enemies: Combat with Contemporary “Dragons”
  • The Temple
  • The Conflict Motif and Royal Figures
  • Conclusion
 

4 Continued Adaptation: The Conflict Motif and the Eschaton

  • Hebrew Bible Eschatological Battles
  • Revelation
  • Jesus/Christos as the Divine Warrior
  • Leviathan and Behemoth in the Eschaton and More Eschatological Battles
  • The “Holy One” versus the Prince of the Sea
  • Conclusion

5 The Motif of Yahweh’s Authority over the Sea and the Legitimacy of Individuals: Claiming versus Having Power over the Sea

  • Jesus
  • Antiochus IV Epiphanes
  • Gamaliel
  • Conclusion

6 Conclusion

  • Leave “Chaos” Out of It
  • The Conflict Topos: Distinctions and Comparisons

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