I Appeared as El Shadday

Tracing the Origins of the God of Israel
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-525-50227-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 292, gebunden

Reihe: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

Aleksander Krogevoll offers the first extensive study on El Shadday. This includes the most thorough review of all etymologies proposed for Shadday and the most extensive examination on the use and meaning of Shadday in the Hebrew Bible. The author challenges the views that Shadday was unique to the Priestly source or that Priestly source invented the epithet. He supports the etymology of Shaddai being the Akkadian šadû, “mountain.” By tracing the epithet šadû from Akkadian where it was attached to Enlil and Dagan to the Ugaritic El, Krogevoll presents a new hypothesis for how Shadday was introduced into Hebrew. This work is the first book-length study on the equation between El Shadday and Yahweh. Other scholars have proposed that their shared mountain motifs played a part in the equation, but this work is the first study to examine the equation through the lens of the shared mountain motifs at length.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krogevoll, Aleksander

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dunderberg, Ismo

Gertz, Jan Christian

Knust, Jennifer

Löhr, Hermut

Luther, Susanne

Schaper, Joachim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Luther, Susanne
Susanne Luther is Professor of New Testament at Georg-August University Göttingen.

Knust, Jennifer
Jennifer Knust is Professor of Religious Studies. She specializes in early Christian history and the religions of the ancient Mediterranean.

Krogevoll, Aleksander
Aleksander Krogevoll is Associate Professor in Religion, Worldviews and Ethics at the Volda University College, Norway.

Dunderberg, Ismo
Ismo Dunderberg ist Professor für Neues Testament an der Universität Helsinki.

Löhr, Hermut
Hermut Löhr ist Professor für Neues Testament und Antikes Judentum an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Schaper, Joachim
Joachim Schaper is Professor for Old Testament and is appointed to a Personal Chair in Hebrew, Old Testament and Early Jewish Studies at King's College, Aberdeen.

Gertz, Jan Christian
Jan Christian Gertz ist Professor für Altes Testament an der Universität Heidelberg.