In the beginning : essays on creation motifs in the ancient Near East and the Bible / Bernard F. Batto.

By:

Batto, Bernard Frank

Series: Siphrut ; 9.Publisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013Description: 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1575066971
9781575066974

Uniform titles:

Essays. Selections

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

221.6 23

LOC classification:

BS1199.C73 B382 2013

Online resources:

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 The Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Hebrew Ideas of Creation""; ""Chapter 2 Paradise Reexamined""; ""Chapter 3 The Institution of Marriage in Genesis 2 and in Atrahasis""; ""Chapter 4 The Divine Sovereign:The Image of God in the Priestly Creation Account""; ""Chapter 5 The Sleeping God: An Ancient Near Eastern Motif of Divine Sovereignty""; ""Chapter 6 The Reed Sea: Requiescat in Pace""; ""Chapter 7 The Covenant of Peace:A Neglected Ancient Near Eastern Motif""; ""Chapter 8 The Malevolent Deity in Mesopotamian Myth""; ""Index of Authors""

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