In the beginning : essays on creation motifs in the ancient Near East and the Bible - Batto, Bernard Frank (Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013)
""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""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible; Creation -- Biblical teaching; Middle East -- Religion; Middle Eastern literature -- History and criticism; RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- Old Testament; Creation -- Biblical teaching; Middle Eastern literature; Religion; Middle East; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc