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  • 2 - Divine Aggression in Royal Inscriptions

  • Collin Cornell, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
  • Book:
    Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions
    Published online:
    16 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 October 2020, pp 38-92

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 tests the claim that the biblical god Yhwh is uniquely aggressive by rereading a sample of six memorial inscriptions, including the Mesha Inscription, the Zakkur Inscription, the Tel Dan Inscription, the Hadad Inscription, the Azatiwada Inscription, and the Amman Citadel Inscription. The chapter finds that in these inscriptions, the aggression of the patron god targets external enemies of the king and country, while the king himself is wholly exempted from the god’s destructiveness. However, an important complication obtains: the curse sections of the memorial inscriptions pray vengeance on anyone who harms the inscription—including members of the king’s own community and country, and, in a couple cases, his own family. The loyalty of the god to his one individual king trumps all other loyalties.