Creation and chaos
Subtitle: a reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's chaoskampf hypothesis
By: edited by JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781575062792
Subjects: Mythology; Mythologie; Creation; Chaos; Bibel; Religion and politics; Middle Eastern Mythology; Schöpfung; Monsters; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Abbreviations; title: Part 1: Creation and Chaos; title: From Hesiod's Abyss to Ovid's rudis indigestaque moles: Chaos and Cosmos in the Babylonian "Epic of Creation" / Karen Sonik; title: On the Theogonies of Hesiod and the Hurrians: An Exploration of the Dual Natures of Tessub and Kumarbi / Dennis R.M. Campbell; title: Creation in the Bible and the Ancient Near East / W.G. Lambert; title: Searching for Meaning in Genesis1:2: Purposeful Creation out of Chaos without Kampf / JoAnn Scurlock; title: Part 2: Monster-Bashing Myths; title: The Fifth Day of Creation in Ancient Syrian and Neo-Hittite Art / Douglas Frayne; title: Once upon a Time in Kiskilusa: The Dragon-Slayer Myth in Central Anatolia / Amir Gilan; title: The Northwest Semitic Conflict Myth and Egyptian Sources from the Middle and New Kingdoms / Joanna Toyraanvuori; title: Yamm as the Personification of Chaos? A Linguistic and Literary Argument for a Case of Mistaken Identity / Brendon C. Benz; title: Part 3: Gunkel and His Times; title: Chaos and Creation: Hermann Gunkel between Establishing the "History of Religions School," Acknowledging Assyriology, and Defending the Faith / Steven Lundstrom; title: Where Is Eden? An Analysis of Some of the Mesopotamian Motifs in Primeval J / Peter Feinman; title: Babel-Bible-Baal / Aaron Tugendhaft; title: Part 4: Power and Politics; title: The Combat Myth as a Succession Story at Ugarit / Wayne T. Pitard; title: What Are the Nations Doing in the Chaoskampf? / Robert D. Miller II; title: Part 5: Kampf and Chaos; title: The Combat Myth in Israelite Tradition Revisited / Bernard F. Batto; title: The Three "Daughters" of Baal and Transformations of Chaoskampf in the Early Chapters of Genesis / Richard E. Averbeck; title: Part 6: Chaos and (Re)Creation; title: Chaoskampf Lost-Chaoskampf Regained: The Gunkel Hypothesis Revisited / JoAnn Scurlock; title: Making All Things New (Again): Zephaniah's Eschatological Vision of a Return to Primeval Time / David Melvin; title: [Part 7:] Indexes; title: Index of Authors; title: Index of Scripture; title: Index of Subjects; title: Index of Ancient Texts and Objects; title: Index of Words.