TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hess,Richard S.
AU  - Tsumura,David Toshio
TI  - I studied inscriptions from before the flood: ancient Near Eastern, literary, and linguistic approaches to Genesis 1-11 
T2  - Sources for biblical and theological study
SN  - 9780931464881
AV  - BS1235 .I888 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Winona Lake, Indiana
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Bible
KW  - Genesis, I-XI
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - Middle Eastern literature
KW  - Relation to the Old Testament
KW  - Myth in the Old Testament
KW  - Mythology, Middle Eastern
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
N1  - One hundred fifty years of comparative studies on Genesis 1-11: an overview; Richard S. Hess --; Genesis and ancient Near Eastern stories of creation and flood: an introduction; David Toshio Tsumura --; The genealogies of Genesis 1-11 and comparative literature; Richard S. Hess --; The origins of civilization according to biblical and cuneiform texts; G. Castellino --; A new look at the Babylonian background of Genesis; W.G. Lambert --; A new Babylonian "Genesis" story; A.R. Millard --; The Eridu Genesis; Thorkild Jacobsen --; Eridu, Dunnu, and Babel: a study in comparative mythology; Patrik D. Miller Jr. --; The double creation of mankind in Enki and Ninmah, Atrahasis I 1-351, and Genesis 1-2; Isaac M. Kikawada --; The rivers of paradise; E.A. Speiser --; King lists of the old Babylonian period and biblical genealogies; Abraham Malamat --; The Old Testament genealogies in recent research; Robert R. Wilson --; The incantation series Bit Meseri and Enoch's ascension to heaven; Rykle Borger --; The "table of nations" (Genesis 10): its general structure and meaning; J. Simons --; Genesis 10: some archaeological considerations; D.J. Wiseman --; The name of Babylon; I.J. Gelb --; In search of Nimrod; E.A. Speiser --; The "Babel of tongues" : a Sumerian version; Samuel Noah Kramer --; Theme in Genesis 1-11; D.J.A. Clines --; The earth in Genesis 1; David Toshio Tsumura --; "Male and female he created them": Genesis 1:27b in the context of the priestly account of creation; Phyllis A. Bird --; Genesis 2:4b-3:24 : a synchronic approach; Jerome T. Walsh --; Genesis 2-3: the theme of intimacy and alienation; Alan Jon Hauser --; Sanctuary symbolism in the garden of Eden story; Gordon J. Wenham --; Lamech's song to his wives (Genesis 4:23-24); S. Gevirtz --; From analysis to synthesis: the interpretation of Genesis 1-11; Bernhard W. Anderson --; The coherence of the flood narrative; Gordon J. Wenham --; The "tower of Babel" as a clue to the redactional structuring of the primeval history (Genesis 1:1-11:9); J.M. Sasson; 2
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