Eden's Serpent: It's Mesopotamian Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eden's Serpent: It's Mesopotamian Origins write by Walter Mattfeld. This book was released on 2010-10-24. Eden's Serpent: It's Mesopotamian Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Several pre-biblical protagonists appearing in Mesopotamian myths are identified as being fused together and recast as the Garden of Eden's serpent.
The Garden of Eden Myth
The Garden of Eden Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Garden of Eden Myth write by Walter Mattfeld. This book was released on 2010-11-01. The Garden of Eden Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholarly proposals are presented for the pre-biblical origin in Mesopotamian myths of the Garden of Eden story. Some Liberal PhD scholars (1854-2010) embracing an Anthropological viewpoint have proposed that the Hebrews have recast earlier motifs appearing in Mesopotamian myths. Eden's garden is understood to be a recast of the gods' city-gardens in the Sumerian Edin, the floodplain of Lower Mesopotamia. It is understood that the Hebrews in the book of Genesis are refuting the Mesopotamian account of why Man was created and his relationship with his Creators (the gods and goddesses). They deny that Man is a sinner and rebel because he was made in the image of gods and goddesses who were themselves sinners and rebels, who made man to be their agricultural slave to grow and harvest their food and feed it to them in temple sacrifices thereby ending the need of the gods to toil for their food in the city-gardens of Edin in ancient Sumer.
From Creation to Abraham
From Creation to Abraham - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Creation to Abraham write by John Day. This book was released on 2021-11-18. From Creation to Abraham available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Day investigates disputed points of interpretation within Genesis 1-11, expanding on his earlier book From Creation to Babel with 11 stimulating essays. Day considers the texts within their Near Eastern contexts, and pays particular attention to the later history of interpretation and reception history. Topics covered include the meaning of the Bible's first verse and what immediately follows, as well as what it means that humanity is made in the image of God. Further chapters examine the Garden of Eden, the background and role of the serpent and the ambiguous role of Wisdom; the many problems of interpretation in the Cain and Abel story, as well as what gave rise to this story; how the Covenant with Noah and the Noachic commandments, though originally separate, became conflated in some later Jewish thought; and the location of 'Ur of the Chaldaeans', Abraham's alleged place of origin, and how this was later misinterpreted by Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources as referring to a 'fiery furnace of the Chaldaeans'. These chapters, which illuminate the meaning, background and subsequent interpretation of the Book of Genesis, pave the way for Day's forthcoming ICC commentary on Genesis 1-11.
Understanding Biblical Israel
Understanding Biblical Israel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Biblical Israel write by Stanley Ned Rosenbaum. This book was released on 2002. Understanding Biblical Israel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to Stanley Rosenbaum, the Bible resembles what a family would retrieve after a tornado hits a trailer park -- some of the family's own possessions mixed with those of others, overlapping, contradicting, and disordered. Understanding Israelite History is a revolutionary attempt to fill in the many gaps left in the historical record. Rosenbaum begins by demonstrating that Israel's religion was not a clean, divinely inspired break with humanity's past, but derives from the long sweep of events that began when Homo sapiens first acquired language. Strata of earlier religions are still visible beneath the surface of Israelite monotheism. Early Israel was not "one man's family", however dysfunctional. It was a collection of individuals and groups, mainly outcasts or lower social elements, who coalesced into a nation and developed -- though they did not always follow -- a religion of ethical monotheism and principles of democratic government and social justice that still today move and inspire more than half the world's population. Like all religions, Israel's was shaped by the language, in this case Hebrew, in which it is expressed. Expressing monotheism in a language that is essentially dualistic conduced to the suppression of the female elements of earlier religions which had nurtured Israel's religion, and consequently, to a lack of appreciation for the part played by women in Israel's religious life. This skewed view of Israel's religion and its history that the Bible contains is a result of its having been collected, edited and in part written by Judeans, southern survivors, and heirs of David's kingdom who were moved to record it in the wake of the destruction ofJerusalem in 586 BCE.
The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...
The Earth and Its Inhabitants ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Earth and Its Inhabitants ... write by Elisée Reclus. This book was released on 1895. The Earth and Its Inhabitants ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
