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Isaiah 50 shares the Baal Cycle's defeat of Sea through dried waters, using power over the sea to answer doubts about God's ability to rescue his people.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE

KTU 1.2 IV:31

Cuneiform Texts from Ugarit
Ancient Near East
like a falcon from his fingers. Strike the skull of Prince Yamm (Ocean), the brow of Ruler Nahar (River)! Let Yamm collapse in a heap, and let him fall to the ground!' Then the mace leapt from the hand of Baal, like a falcon from his fingers. It struck the skull of Prince Yamm, the brow of Ruler Nahar. Yamm collapsed in a heap; he fell to the ground. His joints trembled, and his visage was discomposed. Baal gathered Up and drank Prince Yamm to the dregs, he exterminated Ruler Nahar. By name Athtart chided him Dry him Up, O Valiant Baal! Dry him up, O Charioteer of the Clouds! For our captive is Prince [Yamm], [for] our captive is Ruler Nahar. And […] goes out […] Valiant Baal dries him up, and […] Yamm is surely dead! Baal shall [reign]
Date: 1350 - 1185 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)

Isaiah 50:2

Hebrew Bible
2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water. 3 I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.” 4 The Sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do. 5 The Sovereign Lord has spoken to me clearly; I have not rebelled, I have not turned back.
Date: 7th-5th Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References

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“... Many writers have noted the great frequency with which the combat myth is described or alluded to in the Hebrew Bible.98 While it would be wrong to claim that the biblical narratives derive immediately from the Ugaritic one, it is unquestionable that they are joint heirs to one West Semitic strand of the tradition. Both end up with the victor claiming a patrimony described as his “inheritance”99 and they share many significant items of vocabulary, as detailed →in Table 2 below.100 The real significance of these terms is not just their usage across the divide between Ugaritic and Hebrew literature, suggesting a cognate relationship (which spreads more widely across diverse recensions of the tradition), but also their capacity, as key poetic terms, to evoke the trope even when they are used in isolation, as in some cases instanced here.101 These points of contact are too numerous to claim that any similarity is superficial and inconsequential. They are evidently organically linked. ...” “... b. ybṯ, ybš, ḥrb, “dry up”:103 KTU 1.2 iv 29 (ybṯ), 31 (ybṯ) Isa 50:2 (ḥrb), Jer 51:36 (ḥrb), Nah 1:4 (ybš), Josh 2:10 (ybš) etc., Ps 74:15 (ybš), Isa 42:15 (ybš), 44:27 (ḥrb, ybš), Zech 10:11 (ybš), Exod 14:21 (ḥrb), Isa 44:27 (ḥrb). ...”

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