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| Foreword | 9 | |
| Preface | 11 | |
| Abbreviations | 13 | |
| Introduction | 17 | |
| 1. | The Origins of Deity-Nation Relations | 21 |
| The Priority of the Deity-Territory Tie | ||
| The Priority of the Deity-People Tie | ||
| Conclusion | ||
| 2. | The Expression of the Deity-Nation Relationship | 35 |
| Genitival Constructions | ||
| Bound Forms | ||
| Pronominal Suffixes | ||
| Personal Names | ||
| Israel | ||
| Edom | ||
| Moab | ||
| Ammon | ||
| Aram | ||
| Phoenicia | ||
| Divine Epithets | ||
| 'Adon | ||
| Ba'al | ||
| Melek | ||
| Mare' | ||
| Ro'eh | ||
| Human Epithets | ||
| Limitations to the Concept of National Deities | ||
| The Problem of Rival Deities | ||
| Onomastic Evidence | ||
| Inscriptional Evidence | ||
| Iconographic Evidence | ||
| The Divine Acceptance of Outsiders | ||
| Conclusion | ||
| 3. | National Territory: A Divine Estate | 75 |
| The Feudal Vocabulary | ||
| Genitival Expressions | ||
| The Divine Nahala | ||
| The Divine Yerussa | ||
| The Divine 'Ahuzza | ||
| The Role of the Deity in the Feudal Relationship | ||
| Divine Authority and Territorial Limits | ||
| Divine Authority and National Defense | ||
| Divine Authority and National Government | ||
| Conclusion | ||
| 4. | National Territory: A Divine Grant | 93 |
| The Responsibilities of the Land and the People in This Feudal | ||
| Relationship | ||
| The Role of the Land | ||
| The Obligations of the People | ||
| The Effects of Feudal Infidelity | ||
| Conclusion | ||
| 5. | The End of Deity-Nation Relations | 113 |
| Ancient Near Eastern Accounts of Divine Abandonment | ||
| Sumerian Accounts | ||
| The Curse of Agade | ||
| Lamentations over the Destruction of Sumer and Its Cities | ||
| Akkadian Accounts | ||
| A Prophetic Letter from Mari | ||
| The Tukulti-Ninurta Epic (Middle Assyrian) | ||
| The Marduk Prophecy (Middle Babylonian) | ||
| The Seed of Kingship (Middle Babylonian) | ||
| The Poem of Erra and Ishum (Neo-Babylonian) | ||
| Esarhaddon's Rebuilding of Babylon (Neo-Assyrian) | ||
| The Autobiography of Adad-Guppi' | ||
| The Cyrus Cylinder | ||
| Summary Observations | ||
| The Motif of Divine Abandonment in the Old Testament | ||
| Conclusion | ||
| Conclusion | 149 | |
| Bibliography | 155 | |
| Index of Scripture | 159 | |
| Index of Extrabilical Materials | 164 | |
| Index of Authors | 168 | |
| Index of Subjects | 172 |
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