Creation and Chaos
A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis
Hermann Gunkel was a scholar in the generation of the origins of Assyriology, the spectacular discovery by George Smith of fragments of the Chaldean Genesis, and the Babel-Bibel debate. Gunkel's thesis, inspired by materials supplied to him by the Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern, was to take the Chaoskampf motif of Revelation as an event that would not only occur at the end of the world but had already happened at the beginning, before Creation. In other words, in this theory, one imagines God in Genesis 1 as first having battled Rahab, Leviathan, and Yam (the forces of Chaos) in a grand battle, and only then beginning to create.The problem wi…
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Weitere Autoren: Scurlock, JoAnn (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57506-279-2
- EAN: 9781575062792
- Produktnummer: 24741879
- Verlag: Eisenbrauns
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.9 cm 652 g
- Gewicht: 652
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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