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Founding gods, inventing nations [electronic resource] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCants.

By: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource ([ix], 179 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781400840069 (electronic bk.)
  • 1400840066 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Founding gods, inventing nations.DDC classification:
  • 939/.40072 22
LOC classification:
  • DS57 .M434 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-166) and index.

Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.

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