Imagining Creation

Author: Geller, Markham J. and Mineke Schipper (editors); Mary Douglas (introduction)
Title: Imagining Creation
Publication: Leiden: Brill, 2010
Edition: First edition

Description: Softcover. Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers with red spine lettered in white. Text illustrated with 4 African woodcuts and 18 color plates. A fine, as new copy.

"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. (Publisher)

Contents: 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.

Part of the series: IJS Studies in Judaica, Volume 5. Fine.

Seller ID: 51615

Subject: Religion, Philosophy


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