Background
Day, John was born on September 13, 1948 in London. Son of Horace John Ernest and Violet Augusta (Liggett) Day.
(Over the years there has been no consensus amongst schola...)
Over the years there has been no consensus amongst scholars on the subject of Molech in the Old Testament. Was Molech the name of a god or was it simply a sacrificial term like the molk of the Carthaginians? Were children actually offered up in gruesome and fiery sacrifices to Molech or was it rather a question of harmless rites of cultic dedication in the fire? If Molech was a god, what was his origin and was it the case, as some have argued, that his worshippers equated him with Yahweh, the God of Israel? These are some of the questions which Dr Day's fresh and thorough study discusses and to which decisive answers are given.
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This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament. It is John Day's magnum opus in which he sets forth all his main arguments and conclusions on the subject. The work considers in detail the relationship between Yahweh and the various gods and goddesses of Canaan, including the leading gods El and Baal, the great goddesses (Asherah, Astarte and Anat), astral deities (Sun, Moon and Lucifer), and underworld deities (Mot, Resheph, Molech and the Rephaim). Day assesses both what Yahwism assimilated from these deities and what it came to reject. More generally he discusses the impact of Canaanite polytheism on ancient Israel and how monotheism was eventually achieved.
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Day, John was born on September 13, 1948 in London. Son of Horace John Ernest and Violet Augusta (Liggett) Day.
Bachelor in Theology, Cambridge University, England, 1970. Master of Arts in Theology, Cambridge University, England, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy in Old Testament Studies, Cambridge University, England, 1977.
Doctor of Divinity, Oxford University, England, 2003.
He was Professor of Old Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford (2004–13). He was Fellow, Tutor in Theology, and Dean of Degrees at Lady Margaret Hall. He was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship in 2013 at the University of Oxford.
( This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five ye...)
(Over the years there has been no consensus amongst schola...)
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Author: God's Conflict with the Dragon and The Sea: Echoes of a Canaanite Myth in the Old Testament, 1985, Molech: A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, 1989, Psalms, 1990, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan, 2000. Editor: Oxford Bible Atlas, 1984, William Robertson Smith: The Religion of the Semites (2d and 3d series), 1995, King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar, 1998, In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel: Proceedings of Oxford Old Testament Seminar, 2004. Co-editor (with R.P. Gordon & H.G.M. Williamson): Wisdom in Ancient Israel: Essays in Honour of J.A. Emerton, 1995.
Assistant editor: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Contributor articles to professional journals.
He is the editor of In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel (2004) and wrote God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea (1985) and Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (2000).
Member of Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society (former committee member), Palestine Exploration Fund, Society Biblical Literature (Dahood Memorial prize 1984), Society for Old Testament Study.
Married Jane Mary Osborn, June 20, 1981. Children: Lisa Marie, Sebastian John.