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In the Beginning: Essays on Creation Motifs in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

In the Beginning: Essays on Creation Motifs in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

Batto, Bernard F.

Hardcover

Series: Siphrut, Book 9

Religion General Ancient History GeneralBible Studies

ISBN10: 1575062674
ISBN13: 9781575062679
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: May 1 2013
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Bernard F. Batto spent the bulk of his career examining the ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible, with particular interest in the influence of the surrounding cultures on the biblical creation stories. This collection gathers six of his most important previously published essays and adds two new contributions. Among the essays, Batto identifies various creation motifs prevalent in the ancient Near East and investigates the reflexes of these motifs in Genesis 1-11 and other biblical accounts of the primeval period. He demonstrates how the biblical writers adapted and responded to the creation ideas of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ugarit, and elsewhere.

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