Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan: A Historical Analysis of Two Contrasting Faiths (Hardcover)

William Foxwell Albright
Penn State University Press
 9780931464010
0-931464-01-3

Professor Albright speaks to a new generation of scholars through this reprint of his classic work contrasting Israelite and Canaanite religions. The five chapters were originally presented as seven lectures.

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and discuss Poetry and Prose, the Patriarchal Background, Canaanite Religion in the Early Bronze Age, the Struggle between Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, and the Religious Cultures of Israel and Phoenicia.