The Mythic Mind : Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature

ISBN-13: 9781845530426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str.

N. Wyatt

Opis

The Israelite world-view was essentially a West Semitic world-view in origin, with additional deeply embedded influences from Egypt and Mesopotamia, though it produced its own distinctive character by way of synthesis and reaction. The essays in this volume explore various aspects of this process, historically and cosmologically.

Spis treści

1. The Problem of the ‘God of the Fathers’ 2. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 3. The Significance of the Burning Bush 4. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 5. Sea And Desert: Symbolic Geography in West Semitic Religious Thought 6. Symbols of Exile 7. Of Calves And Kings: The Canaanite Dimension in the Religion of Israel 8. The Darkness of Genesis 1.2 9. The Significance of Spin in West Semitic Thought: A Contribution to the History of a Mythological Motif 10. The Vocabulary and Neurology of Orientation: The Ugaritic and Hebrew Evidence 11. The Mythic Mind 12. ‘Water, Water Everywhere…’: Musings on the Aqueous Myths of the Near East 13. Androgyny in the Levantine World

O autorze

Nicolas Wyatt