The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature

by Nicolas Wyatt

Overview

This book contains essays that explore various aspects of synthesis process of Israelites, historically and cosmologically, and commonly challenging views developed in the treatment of Israel in isolation. It focuses on the importance of the Ugaritic texts and Old Testament literature in Israel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845530426
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Series:	BibleWorld Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Problem of the ‘God of the Fathers’ 2. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 3. The Significance of the Burning Bush 4. The Development of the Tradition in Exodus 3 5. Sea And Desert: Symbolic Geography in West Semitic Religious Thought 6. Symbols of Exile 7. Of Calves And Kings: The Canaanite Dimension in the Religion of Israel 8. The Darkness of Genesis 1.2 9. The Significance of Spin in West Semitic Thought: A Contribution to the History of a Mythological Motif 10. The Vocabulary and Neurology of Orientation: The Ugaritic and Hebrew Evidence 11. The Mythic Mind 12. ‘Water, Water Everywhere…’: Musings on the Aqueous Myths of the Near East 13. Androgyny in the Levantine World