To judge from some on-line sources, W.F. Albright was talking about "hypostatization" as a regular process in religions/mythologies as far back as 1925!.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: HYPOSTASIS.] Reference

The hypostatization of the heart implied here is a unique feature of ancient Egyptian thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [SIN AND SALVATION] Reference

The hypostatization of this idea, therefore, although it may be natural, is deeply problematic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

In addition to criticizing the “hypostatization” of the ideas of reason, Kant seeks to expose the “subreptions” involved in the use of the ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

This hypostatization of the idea of the world, the fact that it is taken to be a mind-independent object, acts as the underlying assumption motivating both parties to the two mathematical antinomies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

Another figure hovering in the background was Sigmund Freud, for although in other books he is critical of Freud's hypostatization of entities within the unconscious, in Art as Experience he gives subconscious processes a significant role in the creative process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dewey's Aesthetics] Reference

The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

In so far as this conception is applied to the essences of things, it leads to the hypostatization of the class concepts or universals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference

In these and similar cases time, containing all things, is conceived of as the producer of all things, and the line between personification and hypostatization is not always clearly defined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

This hypostatization of landed property as the source of governmental and social security is precisely what underpinned Cornwallis’s implementation of the Permanent Settlement following the 1792 treaty with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta] Reference

“hypostatization” of each of the ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference