Endnote 12 – From Storm God to Abstract Being

Patrick D. Miller, “Fire in the Mythology of Canaan and Israel,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 27 (1965), pp. 256–261, discusses the use of fire by YHWH and Canaanite deities, especially as an instrument of war. It remains true, however, that no Canaanite god of major significance is associated primarily with fire. In Mesopotamia, however, we find GIBIL/Girra and Nusku. Cf. Wilfred G.E. Watson, “Fire,” in Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, ed. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking and Pieter W. van der Horst (Leiden: Brill, 1995), cols. 626–627.