Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East
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Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East

A Lexical and Contextual Analysis

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  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East

A Lexical and Contextual Analysis

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About this book

Divine and Human Hate in the Ancient Near East studies lexemes for 'hate' in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian. Riley conducts a lexical study of three 'hate' terms, along with comparative analysis of divine and human hate in biblical, Ugaritic, and Mesopotamian literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Table Of Contents
  2. Abbreviations And Symbols
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction
  5. PART 1: HUMAN HATE
  6. Chapter 2: The Emotional Extreme of the Spectrum: Literal Hate
  7. Chapter 3: The Center of the Spectrum: Some Emotion and Some Metaphor
  8. Chapter 4: The Nonemotive Extreme of the Spectrum: Metaphorical Hate
  9. PART 2: DIVINE HATE
  10. Chapter 5: Hate as a Reflex to a Broken Covenant
  11. Chapter 6: Hate toward the Cult
  12. Chapter 7: Hate Toward Vice
  13. Chapter 8: Hate as Part of a God’s Unfavorable Portrait
  14. Chapter 9: Conclusion
  15. Appendix 1: Hate’s Word Field in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Akkadian
  16. Appendix 2: שׂנא in Mal 2:16
  17. Appendix 3: zêru in Nisaba and Wheat?
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index