000			03384cam a2200373 i 4500
001			ocm34699485
003			OCoLC
005			20240726101848.0
008			960415s1996 ctua b 001 0 eng
010			_a96018500
020			_a9780300068238
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dBAKER _dNLGGC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dOCLCG _dCOCUF _dGEBAY _dEXW
049			_aSBIM
050	0	4	_aBS658
050	0	4	_aBS658.C678.N634 1996
100	1		_aCohn, Norman, _d1915-2007., _e1
245	1	0	_aNoah's flood : _bthe Genesis story in Western thought / _cNorman Cohn. _hPR
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c(c)1996.
300			_axii, 154 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c26 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 138.-150) and index.
520	0		_aThe biblical tale of Noah and the Flood has been interpreted in many different ways through the ages, mirroring the many changes in Western beliefs and values. In this masterly and beautifully illustrated book, Norman Cohn, the author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come, explores the origins, development, and varying interpretations of this ancient story and assesses its impact on the history of ideas. The roots of the Flood story, Cohn explains, lie in Mesopotamian mythology. But its meaning was totally transformed by the authors of Genesis so that it became a message of hope for Jews and later a prefiguring of salvation for Christians. Cohn then shows how, under the impact of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the story came to be understood in a new way. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries it was closely associated with the development of scientific geology, which it both helped and hindered.
520	8		_aFrom the late eighteenth century until the present day the story of Noah's Flood has been involved also in the conflict between traditional religious beliefs and science and the attempts to harmonize the two. Cohn describes how, while geological and palaeontological discoveries were calling the historicity of the Flood into question, fundamentalists have continued to champion it, even to the extent of searching for the landing site of the ark. Finally, he considers how, in the course of the present century, the story has been interpreted as a solar myth, a lunar myth, a fertility myth, and even (psychoanalytically) as an expression of male resentment against women. Wide ranging and compellingly narrated, the book includes intriguing accounts of the scholars and theologians who endorsed or rejected the Flood story and contributed to its powerful resonance over two thousand years.
505	0	0	_tMesopotamian Origins -- _tThe Genesis Story -- _tHidden Meanings -- _tFilling Gaps -- _tA Ruined Earth -- _tProvidential Comets -- _tProblematic Fossils -- _tShifting Time-Scales -- _tHarmonizers -- _tFundamentalists -- _tHidden Meanings Again.
530			_a2
650		0	_aDeluge _xHistory of doctrines.
907			_a.b1092288x _b12-01-16 _c01-22-08
942			_cBK _hBS _m1996 _e _i2018-07-14 _k0.00
998			_acim _b07-29-11 _cm _da _e- _feng _gctu _h0
994			_aC0 _bSBI
945			_g1 _i31923001601133 _j2 _lcimc _o- _p0.00 _q- _r- _s- -- _t61 _u3 _v0 _w3 _x0 _y.i18917975 _z07-29-11
999			_c26766 _d26766
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell