1 William D. Barker This study primarily aims to demonstrate that: (1) the background material for Isaiah 24–27 is Canaanite, as represented in the north Canaanite Ba‘al tradition of Ugarit, (2) Isaiah 24–27 is not a series of isolated allusions to various segments of the Ba‘al Myth, but a coherent framework and narrative progression that has been intentionally adopted from the Ba‘al-Mot Myth, and (3) the function of Isaiah 24–27 is to describe the eternal
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