Abstract
We have long been familiar with the endeavours of GUNKEL, 1) GRESSMAN, 2) MOWINCKEL, 3) and SCHMIDT4) to explain the role of the Davidic king in the Jerusalem cult in categories of generalanthropology and specifically of the cult-patterns of Egypt and Mesopopotamia, where the figure of the king was central. MOWINCKEL, in fact, conceives of the Davidic king as 'the incarnation of the national God.' This theory of divine kingship as a vital element in a general cult-pattern has been accepted and applied to Israel by an influential body of scholars and finds its most concrete expression in English in two publications edited by S. H. HOOKE, namely Myth and Ritual 5) and The Labyrinth 6). Since the discovery of the Canaanite literature of Ras Shamra evidence has been claimed from the soil of Canaan
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