2010, ISBN: 9004157654

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[EAN: 9789004157651], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 32.23], [PU: Brill, Leiden], CHRISTIANITY, Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, spine lettered… Mehr…

[EAN: 9789004157651], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 32.23], [PU: Brill, Leiden], CHRISTIANITY, Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, 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. (OCLC) Volume 5 of the Brill series, "IJS Studies in Judaica.", Books<

2010, ISBN: 9004157654

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9789004157651], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 31.98], [PU: Brill, Leiden], CHRISTIANITY, Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, spine lettered… Mehr…

[EAN: 9789004157651], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 31.98], [PU: Brill, Leiden], CHRISTIANITY, Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, 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. (OCLC) Volume 5 of the Brill series, "IJS Studies in Judaica.", Books<

2010, ISBN: 9789004157651

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, spine lettered in white. Text illustrated with 4 Africa… Mehr…

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Red boards with olive-gray bands at head & foot, 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. (OCLC) Volume 5 of the Brill series, "IJS Studies in Judaica.", Brill, 2010, 5<