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Author Bremmer, Jan N

Title Greek religion and culture, the Bible, and the ancient Near East / by Jan N. Bremmer
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 424 pages)
Series Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; v. 8
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 8.
Contents Cover -- Contents13; -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths -- Chapter 2 Pandora or the Creation of a Greek Eve -- Chapter 3 The Birth of Paradise -- Chapter 4 The First Crime: Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Chapter 5 Greek Fallen Angels: Kronos and the Titans -- Chapter 6 Near Eastern and Native Traditions in Apollodorus' Account of the Flood -- Chapter 7 Don't Look Back: From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice -- Chapter 8 Balaam, Mopsus and Melampous: Tales of Travelling Seers -- Chapter 9 Hebrew Lishkah and Greek Lesch234; -- Chapter 10 The Scapegoat between Northern Syria, Hittites, Israelites, Greeks and Early Christians -- Chapter 11 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus -- Chapter 12 Persian Magoi and the Birth of the Term 'Magic' -- Chapter 13 Anaphe, Apollo Aigl234;t234;s and the Origin of Asclepius -- Chapter 14 Attis: A Greek God in Anatolian Pessinous and Catullan Rome -- Chapter 15 The Myth of the Golden Fleece -- Appendix I Genesis 1.1: A Jewish Response to a Persian Challenge? -- Appendix II Magic and Religion? -- Appendix III The Spelling and Meaning of the Name Megabyxos -- Bibliography -- Index of Names, Subjects and Passages
Summary "In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms 'paradise' and 'magic'. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central Christian notion of atonement."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-400) and index
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SUBJECT Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Bibel. idszbz
Subject Mythology, Greek.
Mythology, Greek -- Influence
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
Mythology, Middle Eastern -- Influence
Bible stories.
Bible stories.
RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Bible stories
Civilization
Mythology, Greek
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Kulturvergleich
Mythologie
Religion
Altes Testament -- Griechische Literatur.
Griechische Literatur -- Altes Testament.
Griechische Literatur -- Neues Testament.
Mythen -- Orient (alter) -- Rezeption.
Mythen -- griechische -- Rezeption.
Mythen -- griechische -- Orient (alter)
Neues Testament -- Griechische Literatur.
Griechische Religion.
Kultur.
Mythologie.
Religion.
SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057040
Middle East -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090502
Subject Greece
Middle East
Griechenland Altertum
Alter Orient.
Griechenland (Altertum)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047432715
9047432711
1282397974
9781282397972
9786612397974
6612397977