Mesopotamian creation stories / W.G. Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman
Summary
"Imagining Creation" is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa