| Imagining Creation Contributor(s): Geller (Editor), Schipper, Mineke (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004157654 ISBN-13: 9789004157651 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $205.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 202.4 |
| Series: IJS Studies in Judaica |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.44" W x 9.69" (2.58 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London. |