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Imagining creation / edited by Markham J. Geller and Mineke Schipper ; with an introduction by Mary Douglas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- IJS studies in Judaica
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creation--Mythology--Congresses.
- Creation.
- Creation--Mythology.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Summary:
- The Institute of Jewish Studies, founded in 1954 by the late Alexander Altmann, is dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of scholarship in Jewish Studies and related fields. Its programmes include public lectures, seminars, and annual conferences. All lectures and conferences are open to the general public.
- Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creation myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.
- Contents:
- Mesopotamian creation stories / W.G. Lambert
- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke
- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger
- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper
- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum
- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter
- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova
- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari
- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004157651
- 9004157654
- OCLC:
- 182779081
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