The conflict myth and the biblical tradition / Debra Scoggins Ballentine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballentine, Debra Scoggins, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Mythology.

War.

Combat in the Bible.

Eschatology, Ancient.

Middle East--Religion.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition' advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient West Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and contributes to studies concerned with how mythological and religious ideas are used to render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to invalidate others.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""I. Theorizing Myth in Ancient West Asian Studies""; ""Myth Theory""; ""Biblical Scholarship and the Category of Myth""; ""Terminology""; ""The Ancient West Asian Milieu and the Comparative Enterprise""; ""II. The Conflict Topos in Extant Narratives""; ""Anzu""; ""Enuma Elish""; ""Aššur Version of Enuma Elish""; ""Baʿlu Cycle""; ""Comparisons and Narrative Taxonomy""; ""Conclusion""; ""III. The Conflict Motif""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-027315-1

0-19-022682-X

0-19-937026-5

OCLC:

905902755