The God Gad.
Although a Canaanite deity named Gad has long been known to have had a cultic following in the Levant, relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating its character, status, and relationship to other major gods . The following study aims to investigate the nature of the deity by culling...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 139; no. 2; pp. 307 - 317 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Apr-Jun2019
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