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Zustand: Fair. Volume 5. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9789004186231.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. sealed in original plastic.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Quarto. xxii, 424pp. Index. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers with red spine lettered in white. Text illustrated with 4 African woodcuts and 18 color plates. A fine, as new copy. "Imagining Creation" is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. (Publisher) Contents: Mesopotamian creation stories / W.G. Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman. Part of the series: IJS Studies in Judaica, Volume 5.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.