Primeval History : An Intertextual Reading


Helge. Kvanvig
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Leiden : : BRILL, , 2011.
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1 online resource (626 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Primeval History; Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic; Part One Mesopotamian Primeval Traditions; Chapter One The Epic of Atrahasis; 1.1 The Manuscripts of Atrahasis; 1.2 Outline of the Story; 1.2.1 The Igigu Myth; 1.2.2 The Flood Myth; 1.3 The Overall Structure of the Epic; 1.3.1 Creation and Annihilation; 1.3.2 First and Second World Order for Humans; 1.3.3 The Confusion of the Human and the Divine; 1.4 The Characters; 1.4.1 The Gods; 1.4.2 Atrahasis; 1.5 The Noise: Conceptualizing the Story. - 1.3.2 The Wisdom of Ben Sira and Pseudo-Eupolemus1.3.3 Evidence from Qumran and Daniel 7; Chapter Two The Watcher Story; 2.1 Growth and Date; 2.2 Genesis and the Watcher Story; 2.2.1 Comparison between Genesis 1-9 and the Watcher Story; 2.2.2 The Watcher Story and the Priestly Source; 2.2.3 The Watcher Story and Genesis 6:1-4; 2.3 The Literary Structure of the Watcher Story; 2.4 The Flood in the Watcher Story; 2.4.1 The Flood Structure in the Watcher Story and in the Priestly Source; 2.4.2 The Human-Divine Mixture and the Giants; 2.5 The Rebellion in the Watcher Story. - 1.5.1 "Noise and Din" in the Scholarly Discussion1.5.2 Rigmu as a Key Word; Chapter Two Primeval Lists and Stories; 2.1 The Variety of Traditions; 2.2 The Eridu Genesis; 2.3 Antediluvian Kings and Cities; 2.4 Extraordinary Antediluvian Kings; Chapter Three The Traditions of the Apkallus; 3.1 The Lists of the Seven Apkallus; 3.2 Bit Meseri and the Adapa Myth; 3.3 The Apkallus as Protective Spirits; 3.4 The Apkallus as Guardians of the Cosmic Order and of the King; 3.5 The Apkallus and the Transmission of Antediluvian Revelation. - 2.5.1 The Watcher Story and the Poem of Erra. - 7.1 Mesopotamian and Biblical Primeval Histories7.2 The Protagonists: Enoch and Noah; 7.3 The Priestly Document as a Counter Story; Chapter Eight The Reason for the Flood and the non-P Material; 8.1 The Earliest Strata of non-P; 8.2 Genesis 6:1-4 and the Fate of the Antediluvians; Chapter Nine Concluding Remarks; Part Three The Primeval History in the Book of Watchers; Chapter One The Book of Watchers; 1.1 The Literary Sources; 1.2 The Parts and Content of the Book of Watchers; 1.3 Diffusion; 1.3.1 Enochic Writings and the Aramaic Testament of Levi. - Chapter Four The Poem of Erra and the Disruption of Cosmic StabilityChapter Five Concluding Remarks; Part Two The Primeval History in Genesis; Chapter One The Sources of the Primeval History; Chapter Two The Overall Composition of Genesis; Chapter Three The Theology of the Priestly Source; Chapter Four The Beginning and End of the Primeval History; Chapter Five Priestly and Non-Priestly Material in the Primeval History; Chapter Six The Biblical Flood Story and Mesopotamian Parallels; Chapter Seven The Structure of the Priestly Source and Mesopotamian Primeval Traditions. - The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval history in Babylonia, in the Hebrew Bible and the parallel Enochic traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
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