Imagining Creation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-11-27
Mått160 x 240 x 27 mm
Vikt917 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIJS Studies in Judaica
Antal sidor424
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004157651

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Markham J. Geller (BA Princeton 1970, PhD Brandeis University 1974) is Professor of Semitic Languages, University College London, and works primarily on Near Eastern magic and medical texts. Mineke Schipper (MA 1969 and PhD 1973 Free University of Amsterdam) is Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. In her current research she is mainly working on a comparative approach to creation and origin myths.

CONTENTSForeword Markham Geller and Mineke SchipperChapter One Introduction Mary DouglasChapter Two Mesopotamian Creation Stories W. G. LambertChapter Three Creation Stories in Ancient Egypt Stephen QuirkeChapter Four You Can’t Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Ancient Indian Creation MythsWendy DonigerChapter Five Stories of the Beginning: Origin Myths in Africa South of the Sahara Mineke SchipperChapter Six Modern Jewish Attitudes to the Concept of Myth Wout Jac. van BekkumChapter Seven Extract from Genesis 1–2 Translation and Commentary, Norton, NY 1996 Robert AlterChapter Eight The Bible in the Making: Slavonic Creation Stories Florentina BadalanovaChapter Nine Arab Creation Stories beyond the Pale Abdullah al-UdhariChapter Ten Lurianic Creation Myths Daphne FreedmanIndex