Imagining creation
By: edited by Markham J. Geller and Mineke Schipper ; with an introduction by Mary Douglas.
Contributors: Geller, Markham J.; Schipper, Mineke.
Series: IJS studies in judaica -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9789004157651
Subjects: Creation -- Mythology -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mesopotamian creation stories / W.G. Lambert; title: Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke; title: You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger; title: Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper; title: Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum; title: Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter; title: The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova; title: Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari; title: Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.