Creation and Destruction : : A Reappraisal of the ‹i›Chaoskampf ‹/i›Theory in the Old Testament / / David Toshio Tsumura.
In 1989, David Tsumura published a monograph entitled The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Evaluation, in which he demonstrated that the oft-recited claim that the early chapters of Genesis betrayed a background or adaptation by Israel of mythological terms and/or motifs from ot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Creation Narratives in Genesis
- 1. The Earth in Genesis 1
- 2. The Waters in Genesis 1
- 3. The Earth-Waters-rûaḥ in Genesis 1
- 4. The Earth in Genesis 2
- 5. The Waters in Genesis 2
- 6. The Earth-Waters Relationship in Genesis 2
- 7. God and the Waters
- Part 2. The Chaoskampf Motif in Poetic Texts
- 8. Canaanite Myths and Hebrew Poetry
- 9. A Creation Motif in Psalm 46?
- 10. A Destruction Motif in Habakkuk 3
- 11. Metaphor in Poetry
- Conclusions
- Indexes
- Index of Authors
- Index of Scripture
- Index of Ancient Texts
- Index of Ancient Terms