Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic

An Intertextual Reading
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-16380-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 149, 612 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1164 g

Reihe: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism

Most cultures have myths of origin. The Babylonians were the first to combine blocks of traditions about primeval time into primeval histories where humans had a central role. In the first millennium there were different versions that influenced the concepts of primeval history within Jewish religion, both in the Bible and in the parallel Enochic tradition. Atrahasis and the traditions of primeval dynasties had crucial impact on Genesis; the traditions of the primeval apkallus as cosmic guardians were lying behind the Enochic Watcher Story. The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval time in these three traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other

Zielgruppe

For scholars and students interested in Ancient Near Eastern religions and cultures; and the interplay between these cultures in the formation of their world-views, historians, theologians, and philologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kvanvig, Helge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Helge S. Kvanvig, Dr. theol. (1984), University of Oslo, is professor in the Old Testament at the University of Oslo. He has published extensively on Early Jewish apocalyptic and Enochic texts including Roots of Apocalyptic. (Neukirchen-Vluyn 1988).