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In the beginning : essays on creation motifs in the ancient Near East and the Bible /

Bernard F. Batto spent the bulk of his career examining the ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible, with particular interest in the influence of the surrounding cultures on the biblical creation stories. This collection gathers six of his most important previously published essays and adds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Batto, Bernard Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013.
Colección:Siphrut ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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