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The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition

Debra Scoggins Ballentine

Author : Debra Scoggins Ballentine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199370269

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There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that it was used within ancient political and socio-religious discourses to bolster particular divine hierarchies, kings, institutions, and groups, as well as to attack others. Situating her study of the conflict topos within contemporary theorizations of myth by Bruce Lincoln, Russell McCutcheon, and Jonathan Z. Smith, Ballentine examines narratives of divine combat and instances of this conflict motif. Her study cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as constructed time periods, focusing not only on the Hebrew Bible but also incorporating Mesopotamian, early Jewish, early Christian, and rabbinic texts, spanning a period of almost three millennia - from the eighteenth century BCE to the early middle ages CE. The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient west Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and of how mythological and religious ideas are used both to validate and render normative particular ideologies and socio-political arrangements, and to delegitimize and invalidate others.

Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible

Paul K.-K. Cho

Author : Paul K.-K. Cho
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108476195

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Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible by Paul K.-K. Cho Pdf

Explores the influence of the sea myth at the structural and conceptual foundations of the Hebrew Bible.

God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea

John Day

Author : John Day
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532692673

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God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea by John Day Pdf

The Old Testament contains a number of interesting poetic references to God's conflict with a dragon, called by names such as Leviathan, Rahab or the twisting serpent, and with the sea. In this original contribution to the background and understanding of the Old Testament Dr Day undertakes a detailed and thorough examination of these allusions. Building on the discovery of the Ugaritic texts, he demonstrates a source for these references within Canaanite mythology. His study further explores the associations of the imagery. Sometimes in the Old Testament the dragon is associated with the creation of the world, or it becomes a symbol of a foreign nation, and in some references it is associated with divine conflict at the end of time.

Myths of Exile

Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm

Author : Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317501237

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Myths of Exile by Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm Pdf

The Babylonian exile in 587-539 BCE is frequently presented as the main explanatory factor for the religious and literary developments found in the Hebrew Bible. The sheer number of both ‘historical’ and narrative exiles confirms that the theme of exile is of great importance in the Hebrew Bible. However, one does not do justice to the topic by restricting it to the exile in Babylon after 587 BCE. In recent years, it has become clear that there are several discrepancies between biblical and extra-biblical sources on invasion and deportation in Palestine in the 1st millennium BCE. Such discrepancy confirms that the theme of exile in the Hebrew Bible should not be viewed as an echo of a single traumatic historical event, but rather as a literary motif that is repeatedly reworked by biblical authors. Myths of Exile challenges the traditional understanding of 'the Exile' as a monolithic historical reality and instead provides a critical and comparative assessment of motifs of estrangement and belonging in the Hebrew Bible and related literature. Using selected texts as case studies, this book demonstrates how tales of exile and return can be described as a common formative narrative in the literature of the ancient Near East, a narrative that has been interpreted and used in various ways depending on the needs and cultural contexts of the interpreting community. Myths of Exile is a critical study which forms the basis for a fresh understanding of these exile myths as identity-building literary phenomena.

The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition

Arthur Allen Cohen

Author : Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UOM:39015019938151

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Premodern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourses

Allan Wright

Author : Allan Wright
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798881900496

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Premodern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourses by Allan Wright Pdf

Monster Studies is a rising academic topic. Despite hesitancy at first, the subject is now examined by scholars of various academic interests and backgrounds. However, the dominant monster investigations are from the post-1900s. This volume focuses on Premodern monsters. The purpose of this volume is to examine various monsters from diverse cultures in order to indicate how each monstrous discourse derives from their mythology’s socio-cultural context. The volume examines several Monsters within their socio-cultural matrix. This includes a variety of monstrosities from diverse cultures and periods. Namely, the examined creatures, or perceived creatures, stem from the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament (Pauline epistles), Reformation England, the Japanese Noh play Dōjōji, Yamauba Myths, and Yōkai Relics from early modern Japanese Buddhism.

Slaying the Dragon

Bernard Frank Batto

Author : Bernard Frank Batto
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664253539

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"Batto argues persuasively that biblical authors, like other ancient Near Eastern authors, used mythic traditions in composing their new syntheses. . . . His bold argument is impressive".--Richard J. Clifford, Professor of Old Testament, Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Creation and Destruction

David Toshio Tsumura

Author : David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575065632

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In 1989, David Tsumura published a monograph entitled The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Evaluation, in which he demonstrated that the oft-recited claim that the early chapters of Genesis betrayed a background or adaptation by Israel of mythological terms and/or motifs from other ancient Near Eastern literature could not be supported by a close examination of the linguistic data. Despite the book’s positive reception, the notion that the Chaoskampf motif lies behind the early chapters of Genesis continues to be rehearsed in the literature as if the data were incontrovertible. In this revised and expanded edition of the 1989 book, Tsumura carries the discussion forward. In part 1, the general thesis of the original work is restated in a significantly revised and expanded form; in the second part of this monograph, he expands the scope of his research to include a number of poetic texts outside the Primeval History, texts for which scholars often have posited an ancient Near Eastern mythological substratum. Among the questions asked are the following: What are the functions of “waters” and “flood” in biblical poetry? Do the so-called chaos dragons in the Old Testament, such as Leviathan, Rahab, and Yam, have anything to do with the creation motif in the biblical tradition? What is the relationship between these poetic texts and the Ugaritic myths of the Baal-Yam conflict? Are Psalms 18 and 29 “adaptations” of Canaanite hymns, as suggested by some scholars? Among the conclusions that Tsumura reaches are these: (1) The phrase tohû wabohû has nothing to do with the idea of a chaotic state of the earth. (2) The term tehôm in Gen 1:2 is a Hebrew form derived from the Proto-Semitic *tiham-, “ocean,” and it usually refers to the underground water that was overflowing and covering the entire surface of the earth in the initial state of creation. (3) The earth-water relationship in Gen 2:5–6 is different from that in Gen 1:2. In Gen 1:2, the earth was totally under the water; in Gen 2:5–6, only a part of the earth, the land, was watered by the ’ed-water, which was overflowing from an underground source. (4) The biblical poetic texts that are claimed to have been influenced by the Chaoskampf-motif of the ancient Near East in fact use the language of storms and floods metaphorically and have nothing to do with primordial combat.

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths

John Heath

Author : John Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429663741

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The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Heath argues that not only does the God of the Old Testament bear a striking resemblance to the Olympians, but also that the Homeric system rejected by the Judeo-Christian tradition offers a better model for the human condition. The universe depicted by Homer and populated by his gods is one that creates a unique and powerful responsibility – almost directly counter to that evoked by the Bible—for humans to discover ethical norms, accept death as a necessary human limit, develop compassion to mitigate a tragic existence, appreciate frankly both the glory and dangers of sex, and embrace and respond courageously to an indifferent universe that was clearly not designed for human dominion. Heath builds on recent work in biblical and classical studies to examine the contemporary value of mythical deities. Judeo-Christian theologians over the millennia have tried to explain away Yahweh’s Olympian nature while dismissing the Homeric deities for the same reason Greek philosophers abandoned them: they don’t live up to preconceptions of what a deity should be. In particular, the Homeric gods are disappointingly plural, anthropomorphic, and amoral (at best). But Heath argues that Homer’s polytheistic apparatus challenges us to live meaningfully without any help from the divine. In other words, to live well in Homer’s tragic world – an insight gleaned by Achilles, the hero of the Iliad – one must live as if there were no gods at all. The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths should change the conversation academics in classics, biblical studies, theology and philosophy have – especially between disciplines – about the gods of early Greek epic, while reframing on a more popular level the discussion of the role of ancient myth in shaping a thoughtful life.

Reading the Bible with Horror

Brandon R. Grafius

Author : Brandon R. Grafius
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978701694

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Reading the Bible with Horror by Brandon R. Grafius Pdf

In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.

Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology

John H. Walton,J. Harvey Walton

Author : John H. Walton,J. Harvey Walton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625648259

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Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology by John H. Walton,J. Harvey Walton Pdf

Some people believe that a battle of cosmic proportions is raging as Satan and his demons seek to destroy Christians and undermine God’s plans. Others believe that all talk of demons in the Bible and theology only reflects pre-modern superstitions that should be re-interpreted in philosophical and psychological terms. Despite their contrasts, both believe that the Bible directly or indirectly intends to teach readers about reality. Another path is possible. What if references to demons in the Bible are similar to references about the shape and structure of the cosmos representing the beliefs familiar to the ancient audience but used only as a framework for teaching about the plans and purposes of God? This approach is here worked out through detailed examination of hermeneutical method, the ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman contexts, each of the biblical terms and passages, and the essentials of biblical and systematic theology. Unlike many scholarly treatments of demons, readers will not find an assessment of the metaphysical realities. Instead they will be introduced to a hermeneutical, exegetical, and theological feast regarding what the Bible, understood in its ancient context, teaches.

Creation and Ecology

Ronald A. Simkins

Author : Ronald A. Simkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532698729

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Creation and Ecology by Ronald A. Simkins Pdf

In this book Ronald A. Simkins addresses the current environmental crisis and what the Bible might contribute in response to it. The environmental crisis includes loss of biodiversity, degradation of the soil, and especially climate change. If left unchecked, these trends will bring about the collapse of human civilization. These environmental problems are interrelated and share a similar cause: the exploitation of the natural world through an economy structured by capitalist relations of production and powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Through our economic relations, we have depleted natural resources, polluted natural environments, and altered natural processes. These problems are a product of our political economy, which entails not only our politics, ideology, and religion, but primarily our economic system. Because the crisis is economic at its core, Simkins first sets the Bible within its own economic context, exploring how the biblical ideas of creation—an understanding of the human relationship to the natural world—were the product of the ancient Israelite political economy. Then Simkins places the biblical tradition in conversation with the current environmental crisis. The result is a far richer view of creation in the biblical tradition and a better understanding of what is at stake in the current environmental crisis.

Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions

Martti Nissinen,Jutta Jokiranta

Author : Martti Nissinen,Jutta Jokiranta
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628375732

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Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions by Martti Nissinen,Jutta Jokiranta Pdf

This volume presents the work of the international, interdisciplinary research project Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT), whose members focused on cultural, ideological, and material changes in the period when the sacred traditions of the Hebrew Bible were created, transmitted, and transformed. Specialists in the textual study of the Hebrew and Greek Bibles, archaeology, Assyriology, and history, working across their fields of expertise, trace how changes occurred in biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts and traditions. Contributors Tero Alstola, Anneli Aejmelaeus , Rick Bonnie, Francis Borchardt, George J. Brooke, Cynthia Edenburg, Sebastian Fink, Izaak J. deHulster , Patrik Jansson, Jutta Jokiranta, Tuukka Kauhanen, Gina Konstantopoulos, Lauri Laine, Michael C. Legaspi, Christoph Levin, Ville Mäkipelto, Reinhard Müller, Martti Nissinen, Jessi Orpana, Juha Pakkala, Dalit Rom-Shiloni, Christian Seppänen, Jason M. Silverman, Saana Svärd, Timo Tekoniemi, Hanna Tervanotko, Joanna Töyräänvuori, and Miika Tucker demonstrate that rigorous yet respectful debate results in a nuanced and complex understanding of how ancient texts developed.

The Old Testament and God (Old Testament Origins and the Question of God Book #1)

Craig G. Bartholomew

Author : Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493432066

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The Old Testament and God (Old Testament Origins and the Question of God Book #1) by Craig G. Bartholomew Pdf

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book of the Year Award (Biblical Studies) Craig Bartholomew's The Old Testament and God is the first volume in his ambitious four-volume project, which seeks to explore the question of God and what happens to Old Testament studies if we take God and his action in the world seriously. Toward this end, he proposes a post-critical paradigm shift that recenters study around God. The intent is to do for Old Testament studies what N. T. Wright's Christian Origins and the Question of God series has done for New Testament studies. Bartholomew proposes a much-needed holistic, narrative approach, showing how the Old Testament functions as Christian Scripture. In so doing, he integrates historical, literary, and theological methods as well as a critical realist framework. Following a rigorous analysis of how we should read the Old Testament, he goes on to examine and explain the various tools available to the interpreter. He then applies worldview analysis to both Israel and the surrounding nations of the ancient Near East. The volume concludes with a fresh exegetical exploration of YHWH, the living and active God of the Old Testament. Subsequent volumes will include Moses and the Victory of Yahweh, The Old Testament and the People of God, and The Death and Return of the Son.

The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity

Mark Leuchter

Author : Mark Leuchter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190665098

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The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity by Mark Leuchter Pdf

The biblical record attempts to present the Levites as a clerus minor under the Aaronides, a second class priestly order occupying a mediating role between them and the larger Israelite public. But scholars have long recognized that this literary presentation obscures a much more complicated reality pertaining to the origin of the Levites and their role in the development of Israelite religion. This study provides a renewed examination of the Levites as a social entity within ancient Israel, providing a detailed picture of their origins, their ideas, their response to adversity, and the deep impact of the traditions they forged and preserved in literary form.

The Conflict Myth And The Biblical Tradition

The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition by Debra Scoggins Ballentine Pdf

Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible by Paul K.-K. Cho Pdf

God's Conflict with the Dragon and the Sea by John Day Pdf

Myths of Exile by Anne Katrine Gudme,Ingrid Hjelm Pdf

The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition by Arthur Allen Cohen Pdf

Premodern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourses by Allan Wright Pdf

Slaying the Dragon by Bernard Frank Batto Pdf

Creation and Destruction by David Toshio Tsumura Pdf

The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths by John Heath Pdf

Reading the Bible with Horror by Brandon R. Grafius Pdf

Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology by John H. Walton,J. Harvey Walton Pdf

Creation and Ecology by Ronald A. Simkins Pdf

Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions by Martti Nissinen,Jutta Jokiranta Pdf

The Old Testament and God (Old Testament Origins and the Question of God Book #1) by Craig G. Bartholomew Pdf

The Levites and the Boundaries of Israelite Identity by Mark Leuchter Pdf

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