Imagining creation / edited by Markham J. Geller and Mineke Schipper ; with an introduction by Mary Douglas.
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 re...
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| Superior document: | IJS studies in Judaica, v. 5 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | IJS studies in Judaica ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Mesopotamian creation stories / W.G. Lambert
- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke
- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger
- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper
- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum
- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter
- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova
- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari
- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.