I Appeared as El Shadday - Tracing the Origins of the God of Israel

Aleksander Krogevoll offers the first extensive study on El Shadday. This includes the most thorough review of all etymologies proposed for Shadday and the most extensive examination on the use and meaning of Shadday in the Hebrew Bible. The author challenges the views that Shadday was unique to the Priestly source or that Priestly source invented the epithet. He supports the etymology of Shaddai being the Akkadian sadû, "mountain." By tracing the epithet sadû from Akkadian where it was attached to Enlil and Dagan to the Ugaritic El, Krogevoll presents a new hypothesis for how Shadday was introduced into Hebrew. This work is the first book-length study on the equation between El Shadday and Yahweh. Other scholars have proposed that their shared mountain motifs played a part in the equation, but this work is the first study to examine the equation through the lens of the shared mountain motifs at length.

About the author

Aleksander Krogevoll is Associate Professor in Religion, Worldviews and Ethics at the Volda University College, Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Aleksander Krogevoll
• Assisted by: Jan Christian Gertz (Editor), Ismo Dunderberg (Editor), Jan Christian Gertz (Editor), J Knust (Editor), Jennifer Knust (Editor), Jennifer Knust et al (Editor), Hermut Löhr (Editor), Susanne Luther (Editor), Joachim Schaper (Editor), Ismo Dunderberg (Editor of the series), Jan Christian Gertz (Editor of the series), Jennifer Knust (Editor of the series), Hermut Löhr (Editor of the series), Susanne Luther (Editor of the series), Joachim Schaper (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.09.2025
• EAN: 9783525502273
• ISBN: 978-3-525-50227-3
• Series: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Altes Testament, Old Testament, YHWH, Yahwism, Mountain-Motif, Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis