Description |
1 online resource (358 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Origin Story -- A History of the Research -- Eastern Mediterranean Genealogical Works -- Origin Stories and Greek Epic and Prose Genealogical Works -- Origin Stories and the Genealogical Material in Genesis -- The Genealogical Sequence in P -- The Genealogical Sequences in the Non-Priestly Material -- Origin Stories and Genealogical Writing in Philo of Byblos and Eastern Mediterranean Sources -- Research Methodology |
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A New Mediterranean Genre: The Thesis Propounded in This Book -- Part I After the Flood and Before It -- 1 The Dispersion of the Peoples after the Flood: Genesis 10 and Its Greek Parallels -- The Biblical Tables of Nations -- The Priestly Table of Nations -- The Yahwistic Table of Nations -- The Amalgamation of the Sources in Genesis 10 -- The Ancient Near Eastern Legacy -- The Dispersal of the Nations in the catalogue of women and Greek Genealogical Literature -- The Derivation of Ethnic Groups from the Flood Protagonist -- Eponymous Forefathers of Nations and the Geographical Perspective |
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Phoenician Tables of Nations? -- Affinities and Links -- 2 The Planting of the First Vineyard after the Flood: Genesis 9:20-27 in Light of Greek Genealogical Traditions -- The Biblical Story of the Planter of the First Vineyard -- Parallel Greek Legends -- The Evolution of the Tradition in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin -- 3 The Creation of the First Woman and the Origin of Evil -- The Biblical Story and Its Parallels in the Greek World -- The Ancient Near Eastern Tradition in the Pandora Story -- The Genealogical Traditions |
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The Unique Aspects of the First Woman Story in Each of the Two Cultures -- 4 The Destruction of the Generation of Heroes: The Story of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (Gen 6:1-4) and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women -- The Biblical Tradition -- Fragment 204 (M-W) of the Hesiodic catalogue of women and Similar Greek Traditions -- The Development of a Shared Tradition -- The Place of the Story of the Sons of God in the Book of Genesis -- Part II From Man to Nation: Literary Patterns -- 5 The "First Inventor" Pattern in Eastern Mediterranean Origin Traditions |
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The Pattern of the First Inventors in Genesis -- The Ancient Near Eastern Legacy -- The Pattern of the First Inventor in Greek Literature -- The Tradition of the First Craftsmen in the Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin -- 6 The "Two Brothers -- Two Nations" Pattern in Eastern Mediterranean Origin Traditions -- Pairs of Eponymous Brothers in Genesis -- Jacob and Esau -- Perez and Zerah -- Ephraim and Manasseh -- Isaac and Ishmael -- Abraham and Lot -- Cain and Abel -- Fraternal Pairs in Greek Genealogical Literature -- Panopeus and Crisus -- Acrisius and Proetus -- Pelias and Neleus |
Summary |
Explores the genre of origin stories, and their appearance in the Hebrew bible and the Ancient Mediterranean literature |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Danaus and Aegyptus |
SUBJECT |
Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Genesis -- Comparative studies
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Subject |
Middle Eastern literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
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Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1009344455 |
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9781009344456 |
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