The Flood myth / edited by Alan Dundes. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1988.Description: vi, 452 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
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Contents:
The Flood (Genesis 6-9) -- The two flood stories in Genesis Norman C. Habel -- The Chaldean account of the deluge George Smith -- Some observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian flood stories Daniel Hammerly-Dupuy -- The Atrahasis epic and its significance for our understanding of Genesis 1-9 Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- The story of the flood in the light of comparative Semitic mythology Eleanor Follansbee -- Stories of the creation and the flood Leonard Woolley -- New light on Ovid's story of Philemon and Baucis W.M. Calder -- The great flood James George Frazer -- The principle of retribution in the flood and catastrophe myths Hans Kelsen -- The flood myth as vesical dream Geza Roheim -- The flood as male myth of creation Alan Dundes -- An analysis of the deluge myth in Mesoamerica Fernando Horcasitas -- Historical changes as reflected in South American Indian myths Annamaria Lammel -- Noah's ark revisited : on the myth-land connection in traditional Australian aboriginal thought Erich Kolig -- Myth motifs in flood stories from the grassland of Cameroon Emmi Kahler-Meyer -- The flood motif and the symbolism of rebirth in Filipino mythology Francisco Demetrio -- The flood : three Northern Kammu versions of the story of creation Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin -- Te deluge myth of the Bhils of Central India Wilhelm Koppers -- The Tamil flood myths and the Cankam legend David Shulman -- Noah and the flood in Jewish legend Louis Ginzberg -- The Devil in the ark (AaTh 825) / Francis Lee Utley -- Science and the universality of the flood Don Cameron Allen -- Geology and orthodoxy : the case of Noah's flood in eighteenth-century thought Rhoda Rappaport -- Charles Lyell and the Noachian deluge James R. Moore -- Creationism : Genesis vs. geology Stephen Jay Gould.
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Introduction -- The Flood (Genesis 6-9) -- The two flood stories in Genesis Norman C. Habel -- The Chaldean account of the deluge George Smith -- Some observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian flood stories Daniel Hammerly-Dupuy -- The Atrahasis epic and its significance for our understanding of Genesis 1-9 Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- The story of the flood in the light of comparative Semitic mythology Eleanor Follansbee -- Stories of the creation and the flood Leonard Woolley -- New light on Ovid's story of Philemon and Baucis W.M. Calder -- The great flood James George Frazer -- The principle of retribution in the flood and catastrophe myths Hans Kelsen -- The flood myth as vesical dream Geza Roheim -- The flood as male myth of creation Alan Dundes -- An analysis of the deluge myth in Mesoamerica Fernando Horcasitas -- Historical changes as reflected in South American Indian myths Annamaria Lammel -- Noah's ark revisited : on the myth-land connection in traditional Australian aboriginal thought Erich Kolig -- Myth motifs in flood stories from the grassland of Cameroon Emmi Kahler-Meyer -- The flood motif and the symbolism of rebirth in Filipino mythology Francisco Demetrio -- The flood : three Northern Kammu versions of the story of creation Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin -- Te deluge myth of the Bhils of Central India Wilhelm Koppers -- The Tamil flood myths and the Cankam legend David Shulman -- Noah and the flood in Jewish legend Louis Ginzberg -- The Devil in the ark (AaTh 825) / Francis Lee Utley -- Science and the universality of the flood Don Cameron Allen -- Geology and orthodoxy : the case of Noah's flood in eighteenth-century thought Rhoda Rappaport -- Charles Lyell and the Noachian deluge James R. Moore -- Creationism : Genesis vs. geology Stephen Jay Gould.

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