Brendan Graham Dempsey | God's Fight with the Dragon | Yahweh's Cosmic New Year Festival @BrendanGrahamDempsey | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
See how ancient Israel's New Year festival celebrating Yahweh's combat with the Dragon of chaos got transformed into Axial Age visions of a cosmic world order, which opened the gateway, in turn, to full-blown apocalyptic thought, as the battle with chaos and resultant victory/regeneration became the lens through which struggling Jews in the Second Temple period came to interpret all of reality.
TEXT VERSION HERE: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/gods-fight-with-the-dragon-part-iii
0:00 The Combat Myth Background for Later Scriptural Allusions
2:04 Rousing the Divine Warrior
5:56 Exilic Transformations of the Myth by Deutero-Isaiah
21:35 Similar Allusions in Nahum
23:40 Axial Abstraction and Apocalyptic Idealization
30:18 Second Zecariach's Apocalyptic Day of Yahweh
See how ancient Israel's New Year festival celebrating Yahweh's combat with the Dragon of chaos got transformed into Axial Age visions of a cosmic world order, which opened the gateway, in turn, to full-blown apocalyptic thought, as the battle with chaos and resultant victory/regeneration became the lens through which struggling Jews in the Second Temple period came to interpret all of reality.
TEXT VERSION HERE: brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/p/gods-fight-with-the-dragon-part-iii
0:00 The Combat Myth Background for Later Scriptural Allusions
2:04 Rousing the Divine Warrior
5:56 Exilic Transformations of the Myth by Deutero-Isaiah
21:35 Similar Allusions in Nahum
23:40 Axial Abstraction and Apocalyptic Idealization
30:18 Second Zecariach's Apocalyptic Day of Yahweh
