The authors of this collection of essays explore different ways that ancient Jews and Christians understood the world's creation and how this understanding shaped their world. In this volume discussions of cosmogony are not only placed within the contexts of biblical hermeneutics and the politics of interpretation, but more broadly within the diverse realms of ancient life. The authors demonstrate how beliefs about Creation played an important role in constructing rituals, pedagogy, ethics, geography, and anthropology. A biblically-based tradition shared by Jews and Christians, the Creation story serves as a fruitful point of departure for this collection of studies about these communities, their interactions, and their overlapping and competing conceptions of the world.
| ISBN: | 9783161519932 |
| Publication date: | 20th November 2013 |
| Author: | Lance Jenott |
| Publisher: | JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 346 pages |
| Series: | Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism |
| Genres: |
Christianity Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient history Religion: general Judaism Christianity Christian Churches, denominations, groups Ancient Greek religion and mythology Roman religion and mythology Theology |