Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Darshan, Guy

Title Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Copies

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
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
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
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
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
Danaus and Aegyptus
SUBJECT Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Genesis -- Comparative studies
Subject Middle Eastern literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1009344455
9781009344456