Imagining Creation

Herausgeber: Geller; Schipper, Mineke

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Imagining Creation" discusses a wide selection of creation stories from different cultures, regions, and periods, from the Ancient Near East and India, Bible and Koran, to modern Africa and Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1170g
• ISBN-13: 9789004157651
• ISBN-10: 9004157654
• Artikelnr.: 22996833

Autorenporträt

Markham J. Geller (BA Princeton 1970, PhD Brandeis University 1974) is Professor of Semitic Languages, University College London, and works primarily on Near Eastern magic and medical texts. Mineke Schipper (MA 1969 and PhD 1973 Free University of Amsterdam) is Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden. In her current research she is mainly working on a comparative approach to creation and origin myths.