Nicolas Wyatt

The Mythic Mind

Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Mythic Mind follows the tradition of works which insist on the necessity for a comparative dimension in the study of ancient Israel

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781845530433
• ISBN-10: 1845530438
• Artikelnr.: 21131380

Autorenporträt

Nicolas Wyatt

Inhaltsangabe

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