Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near EastBRILL, 2008 - 424 עמודים In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging 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 a ~paradisea (TM) and a ~magica (TM). 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. |
תוכן
Chapter 1 Canonical and Alternative Creation Myths | 1 |
Chapter 2 Pandora or the Creation of a Greek Eve | 19 |
Chapter 3 The Birth of Paradise | 35 |
Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean | 57 |
Kronos and the Titans | 73 |
Chapter 6 Near Eastern and Native Traditions in Apollodorus Account of the Flood | 101 |
From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice | 117 |
Tales of Travelling Seers | 133 |
Chapter 12 Persian Magoi and the Birth of the Term Magic | 235 |
Chapter 13 Anaphe Apollo Aiglêtês and the Origin of Asclepius | 249 |
A Greek God in Anatolian Pessinous and Catullan Rome | 267 |
Chapter 15 The Myth of the Golden Fleece | 303 |
A Jewish Response to a Persian Challenge? | 339 |
Appendix II Magic and Religion? | 347 |
Appendix III The Spelling and Meaning of the Name Megabyxos | 353 |
Bibliography | 357 |
Chapter 9 Hebrew Lishkah and Greek Leschê | 153 |
Chapter 10 The Scapegoat between Northern Syria Hittites Israelites Greeks and Early Christians | 169 |
Heliodorus in the Temple and Paul on the Road to Damascus | 215 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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