Daniel J. Grace
When Death Lost Its Throne: How Monotheism Transformed Death from a Divine Power into a Subordinate Messenger
This article examines the transformation of personified Death from the Late Bronze Age religious world of Ugarit to later Jewish, Islamic, European, and Mexican traditions. It does not argue for a direct genealogical line from the Ugaritic deity Mot to the later Angel of Death. Instead, it asks how the status, agency, and sovereignty of…