Download or read book Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic written by Frank Moore Cross and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel’s religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.