Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan?

David Toshio Tsumura untersucht in diesem Aufsatzband eine Reihe von ugaritischen mythologischen und liturgischen Texten eingehend daraufhin, wie sie die Gottheit interpretieren. Er beleuchtet alte kanaanitische religiöse Praktiken und soziale Bräuche, die für ein besseres Verständnis der alttestamentlichen Literatur unerlässlich sind.Introduction
Part 1 - Background
Chapter 1: Canaan and the Canaanites Chapter 2: C. H. Gordon, the Father of Ugaritic Studies

Part 2 - El, Baal and Yahweh
Chapter 3: Canaanite Religion and Israelite Yahwism
Chapter 4: Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Ugarit?

Part 3 - The Myth and Ritual of the Good Gods
Chapter 5. IL in the Fertility Myth (KTU 1.23:30-76)
Chapter 6: Mt-w-Šr and His Two Weapons
Chapter 7: Myth and Ritual Relationship in KTU 1.23
Chapter 8: Revisiting the »Seven« Good Gods of Fertility in Ugarit

Part 4 - Royal Dynastic Cults in Ugarit
Chapter 9: Kings and Cults in Ancient Ugarit
Chapter 10: The Ancestor Cult in Ugarit

Part 5 - Language and Style
Chapter 11: Vowel sandhi in Ugaritic
Chapter 12: »Misspellings« in Cuneiform Texts from Ugarit
Chapter 13: The primae waw Verb wld in Ugaritic
Chapter 14: The Problem of Keret's Childlessness
Chapter 15: List and Narrative in 1 Samuel 6:17-18a in the Light of Ugaritic Economic Texts
Concluding Remarks