Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean LiteratureAUTHOR: Guy Darshan, Tel Aviv University
DATE PUBLISHED: December 2023
AVAILABILITY: Available
FORMAT: Hardback
ISBN: 9781009344487£ 85.00
HardbackDescription
In this book, Guy Darshan explores stories of origins that lie at the heart of Pentateuchal sources in the context of literature created in neighboring societies of the ancient Mediterranean world. A comparative study, his volume analyses the parallels between Biblical origin stories – the narrative traditions arranged in geneaological sequence that recount the beginnings of humanity and origins of peoples -- in tandem with ancient Greek genealogical writings from the 7–5th centuries BCE onwards. He also considers Phoenician and Anatolian sources from the first millennium, several of which have only been published in recent years. This is the first scholarly study to trace the origins of this genre of narrative and the circumstances that led to appearances in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Mediterranean literature. It sheds new light on our knowledge of the history of literature, as well as the interconnections and interrelations between civilizations of the pre-Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
- Sheds new light on our knowledge of the interconnections and interrelations between civilizations of the pre-Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and the Near East
- Enlightens the question of the formation of the Pentateuch, and Genesis in particular, from a fresh comparative approach
- Broadens our knowledge of the history of literature in the ancient Levant, and the eastern Mediterranean in general
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