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The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature » (REV)

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Authors: Nick Wyatt
ISBN-13: 9781845530433, ISBN-10: 1845530438
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date Published: June 2005
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Nick Wyatt

Book Synopsis

Wyatt (ancient Near East religions, U. of Edinburgh) assembles 13 essays he wrote between 1978 and 2004, standardizing the system of references, providing a common bibliography, and occasionally referring to more recent discussions. Among his topics are the significance of the burning bush, the darkness of Genesis 1.2, aqueous myths of the Near East, and androgyne in the Levantine world. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ch. 1	The problem of the 'God of the fathers'	1
Ch. 2	The development of the tradition in Exodus 3	6
Ch. 3	The significance of the burning bush	13
Ch. 4	Who killed the dragon?	18
Ch. 5	Sea and desert : symbolic geography in West Semitic religious thought	38
Ch. 6	Symbols of exile	55
Ch. 7	Of calves and kings : the Canaanite dimension in the religion of Israel	72
Ch. 8	The darkness of Genesis 1.2	92
Ch. 9	The significance of Spn in West Semitic thought : a contribution to the history of a mythological motif	102
Ch. 10	The vocabulary and neurology of orientation : the Ugaritic and Hebrew evidence	125
Ch. 11	The mythic mind	151
Ch. 12	'Water, water everywhere ...' : musings on the aqueous myths of the Near East	189
Ch. 13	Androgyny in the Levantine world	238