The Genesis of Genesis: The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation

ISBN-13: 9781443826471 / Twarda / 2011 / 325 str.

Shlomo Giora Shoham

Opis

The Genesis of Genesis is about the mytho-empiricism of creation—cosmogony. In its attempt to compare the mythologies of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean cultures—Egyptian, Greek, Judaic and Mesopotamian—the Judaic cosmogony of genesis, which is unique in its reliance on the word as creative agent, is contrasted with the Egyptian, Greek and Mesopotamian mythologies, which are more deterministic.