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I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood

Ancient Near Eastern,Literary and Lingusitic Appraoches to Genesis 1-11 [Paperback]

by Richard S. Hess Hess, David Toshio Tsumura Tsumura

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      Richard S. Hess Hess

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Eisenbrauns

    • Published

      July 2012

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    Product Description

    This volume collects the best of recent research and classic essays on the Primeval History, including several articles that have not appeared heretofore in English. The articles provide students and scholars with easy access to significant scholarship illuminating both the world outside the text and the world within the text.

    Introduction
    1. Richard S. Hess - One Hundred Fifty Years of Comparative Studies on Genesis 1-11: An Overview
    2. David Toshio Tsumura - Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Stories of Creation and Flood: An Introduction
    3. Richard S. Hess - The Genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and Comparative Literature

    Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern and Comparative Approaches
    4. G. Castellino - The Origins of Civilization according to Biblical and Cuneiform Texts
    5. W. G. Lambert - A New Look at the Babylonian Background of Genesis
    6. A. R. Millard - A New Babylonian "Genesis" Story
    7. Thorkild Jacobsen - The Eridu Genesis
    8. Patrick D. Miller Jr. - Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: A Study in Comparative Mythology
    9. Isaac M. Kikawada - The Double Creation of Mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2
    10. A. Speiser - The Rivers of Paradise
    11. Abraham Malamat - King Lists of the Old Babylonian Period and Biblical Genealogies
    12. Robert R. Wilson - The Old Testament Genealogies in Recent Research
    13. Rykle Borger - The Incantation Series Bit Meseri and Enoch's Ascension to Heaven
    14. J. Simons - The "Table of Nations" (Genesis 10): Its General Structure and Meaning
    15. D. J. Wiseman - Genesis 10: Some Archaeological Consideration
    16. I. J. Gelb - The Name of Babylon
    17. E. A. Spier - In Search of Nimrod
    18. Samuel Noah Kramer - The "Babel of Tongues": A Sumerian Version

    Part 2: Literary and Linguistic Approaches
    19. D. J. A. Clines - Theme in Genesis 1-11
    20. David Toshio Tsumura - The Earth in Genesis 1
    21. Phyllis A. Bird - "Male and Female He Created Them": Genesis 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation
    22. Jerome T. Walsh - Genesis 2:4b-3:24: A Synchronic Approach
    23. Alan Jon Hauser - Genesis 2-3: The Theme of Intimacy and Alienation
    24. Gordon J. Wenham - Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story
    25. S. Gevirtz - Lamech's Song to His Wives (Genesis 4:23-24)
    26. Bernhard W. Anderson - From Analysis to Synthesis: The Interpretation of Genesis 1-11
    27. Gordon J. Wenham - The Coherence of the Flood Narrative
    28. J. M. Sasson - The "Tower of Babel" as a Clue to the Redactional Structuring of the Primeval History (Genesis 1:1-11:9)

    Specification

    • Author

      Richard S. Hess Hess

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Eisenbrauns

    • Published

      July 2012

    • Edition

      Reprinted edition

    • Weight

      750g

    • Page Count

      480

    • Dimensions

      153 x 232 x 36 mm

    • ISBN

      9781575062112

    • ISBN-10

      1575062119

    • Eden Code

      4049124

    More Information

    • Author/Creator: Richard S. Hess Hess

    • ISBN: 9781575062112

    • Publisher: Eisenbrauns

    • Release Date: July 2012

    • Weight: 750g

    • Dimensions: 153 x 232 x 36 mm

    • Eden Code: 4049124


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