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1 online resource (xviii, 424 pages). |
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| Series |
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture,
1570-078X ;
v. 8
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-400) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents13; -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths -- Chapter 2 Pandora or the Creation of a Greek Eve -- Chapter 3 The Birth of Paradise -- Chapter 4 The First Crime: Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Chapter 5 Greek Fallen Angels: Kronos and the Titans -- Chapter 6 Near Eastern and Native Traditions in Apollodorus' Account of the Flood -- Chapter 7 Don't Look Back: From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice -- Chapter 8 Balaam, Mopsus and Melampous: Tales of Travelling Seers -- Chapter 9 Hebrew Lishkah and Greek Lesch234; -- Chapter 10 The Scapegoat between Northern Syria, Hittites, Israelites, Greeks and Early Christians -- Chapter 11 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus -- Chapter 12 Persian Magoi and the Birth of the Term 'Magic' -- Chapter 13 Anaphe, Apollo Aigl234;t234;s and the Origin of Asclepius -- Chapter 14 Attis: A Greek God in Anatolian Pessinous and Catullan Rome -- Chapter 15 The Myth of the Golden Fleece -- Appendix I Genesis 1.1: A Jewish Response to a Persian Challenge? -- Appendix II Magic and Religion? -- Appendix III The Spelling and Meaning of the Name Megabyxos -- Bibliography -- Index of Names, Subjects and Passages. |
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| Summary |
"In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms 'paradise' and 'magic'. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central Christian notion of atonement."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Bibel. |
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Altes Testament. |
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Altes Testament. |
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Mythology, Greek.
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Mythology, Greek. |
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Mythology, Greek -- Influence.
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Greece -- Civilization.
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Greece. |
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Civilization. |
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Mythology, Middle Eastern.
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Mythology, Middle Eastern. |
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Mythology, Middle Eastern -- Influence.
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Middle East -- Civilization.
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Middle East. |
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Bible stories.
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Bible stories. |
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Greece -- Civilization. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bremmer, Jan N. Greek religion and culture, the Bible, and the ancient Near East. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 (DLC) 2008005742 (OCoLC)191727937 |
| ISBN |
9789047432715 (electronic book) |
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9047432711 (electronic book) |
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9789004164734 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004164731 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004164734.i-426 |
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