Mythic Mind

Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

Av Nicolas Wyatt

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This book contains essays that explore various aspects of synthesis process of Israelites, historically and cosmologically, and commonly challenging views developed in the treatment of Israel in isolation. It focuses on the importance of the Ugaritic texts and Old Testament literature in Israel.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-04-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt750 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781845530426

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N. Wyatt holds a personal chair in Ancient Near Eastern Religions at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Stirling, Ibadan and Paris and his recent publications include Religious Texts from Ugarit (Sheffield University Press, 1998 and 2002) and Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Ancient Near East (Sheffield University Press, 2001). A volume of essays on royal ideology in Ugarit and Israel will be published by Ashgate Press.

1. The Problem of the ‘God of the Fathers’ 2. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 3. The Significance of the Burning Bush 4. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 5. Sea And Desert: Symbolic Geography in West Semitic Religious Thought 6. Symbols of Exile 7. Of Calves And Kings: The Canaanite Dimension in the Religion of Israel 8. The Darkness of Genesis 1.2 9. The Significance of Spin in West Semitic Thought: A Contribution to the History of a Mythological Motif 10. The Vocabulary and Neurology of Orientation: The Ugaritic and Hebrew Evidence 11. The Mythic Mind 12. ‘Water, Water Everywhere…’: Musings on the Aqueous Myths of the Near East 13. Androgyny in the Levantine World