The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
Author:   Nicolas Wyatt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781845530433


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 April 2005
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The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature


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Author:   Nicolas Wyatt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781845530433


ISBN 10:   1845530438
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 April 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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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

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N. Wyatt holds a personal chair in Ancient Near Eastern Religions at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Stirling, Ibadan and Paris and his recent publications include Religious Texts from Ugarit (Sheffield University Press, 1998 and 2002) and Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Ancient Near East (Sheffield University Press, 2001). A volume of essays on royal ideology in Ugarit and Israel will be published by Ashgate Press.

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