Imagining creation
Imagining creation
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
- xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- IJS studies in judaica, v. 5 1570-1581 ; .
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
9789004157651 9004157654
Creation--Mythology--Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings.
BL325 .C7 / I43 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
9789004157651 9004157654
Creation--Mythology--Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings.
BL325 .C7 / I43 2008