Exodus And Odysseus Compare And Contrast

In the reading of From Storm God to Abstract God, Exodus and Deuteronomy differ from one another in the outlook of the theophany and in the details of God. For Exodus, God is being portrayed on Mt. Sinai talking to Moses. It also was portrayed as a Temple where God and man can come into immediate and intimate contact with God. God descends in Exodus bringing with him a cloud cover that shields the mountain from above as a physical presence on earth. Exodus sees God as a descent from the heavens that resembles a Canaanite storm deity on a cloud. For Deuteronomy, God is in the highest heaven, even when he is revealing himself to his people at the Horeb. Deuteronomy just eliminates all those associations with the Israelite religion. God is portrayed
On the one hand, they must often remember that the bible emphasizes the ideal worship, but Israel fell far short of this complete devotion. Baal is identified with the Babylonian Marduk or Assyrian Ashur as storm gods without many major difficulties. The basic principle of the Canaanite religion is to worship the of gods who controlled the forces of nature, especially those that affected the climate and annual cycle of rain and drought in the coastal areas. All the gods were important to the Canaanites. The gods were more than the personified power of the storm, the drought, the growing crops, sexual fertility, and others. Then a conflict between Baal and Mot happened. The fight itself symbolized the triumph of the rains and life-giving forces over the killing heat and dryness of summer and early fall. It dramatizes the conflict between the “wet” and the “dry” seasons. In the bible readings, God was present as the image of a storm cloud and a thunderstorm because of the anger of God. throughout the readings God was given titles and was praised by the power he had been given to the people. In the end he was the universal