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Biblical Views: Yahweh as Achilles

By Mary Joan Winn Leith

Sing “Wrath!” O Goddess; the wrath of Achilles, Peleus’ son,

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Footnotes

1.

See Tristan Barako and Assaf Yasur-Landau, “One if by Sea… Two if by Land: How Did the Philistines Get to Canaan?” BAR, March/April 2003.

2.

See Hershel Shanks, “Frank Moore Cross—An Interview: Part II: The Development of Israelite Religion,” Bible Review, October 1992.

3.

See Baruch Halpern, “The Exodus from Egypt: Myth or Reality?” in The Rise of Ancient Israel, 1991.

Endnotes

1.

Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press: 1993), p. 90.

2.

Iliad XVIII 80–82. Translation by Richmond Lattimore (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951).

3.

Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, chap. 1.

4.

Gregory Nagy, The Best of the Achaians, Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1979), pp. 73–74 and passim.