Imagining Creation (Paperback) (IJS Studies in Judaica, Band 5) - Softcover

Buch 17 von 22: IJS Studies in Judaica
 
9789004186231: Imagining Creation (Paperback) (IJS Studies in Judaica, Band 5)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004186239 ISBN 13: 9789004186231
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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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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Verlag
BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004186239
ISBN 13 
9789004186231
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
424
Herausgeber
Geller Markham (Mark), Schipper Mineke
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