Riley explores human hate in the ancient Near East in terms of the emotional extreme of the spectrum: literal hate, the center of the spectrum: some emotion and some metaphor, the non-emotive extreme of the spectrum: metaphorical hate. Then he takes up the divine hate that the Hebrew Bible attributes to Yahweh and other sources attribute to members of the Canaanite and Mesopotamian pantheons such as Baal, Marduk, and Enlil. His perspectives are hate as a reflex to a broken covenant, hate toward the cult, hate toward vice, and hate as part of a god's unfavorable portrait. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
