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- catalog contributor b9642690.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "1. The names of God: The problem: A preliminary review -- A meta-literary address to the problem: Source analysis -- An essentially literary address to the problem: Cassuto -- The names of God in nonnarrative texts and the "evolution" of biblical monotheism -- Excursus: On the name of God in the Psalter -- On the evolution of biblical monotheism -- On terms for divinity, common and proper -- The names 'Elohim and YHWH -- YHWH introduces Himself by name -- The patriarch's use of the name YHWH -- The solution to the problem: A (literary) hypothesis".
- catalog description "4. The floods of Noah and Utnapishtim: Theology straight and theology satiric -- On floods and birds; on literalness and source analysis -- The Babylonian Flood story -- The Babylonian Flood story as a critique of paganism -- The biblical Flood story: Text -- On the sources or strands in the Flood story: A preliminary discussion -- Poetical review of the Flood story -- A note on the strands -- Noah's deluge and Utnapishtim's: A comparison -- 5. From Noah to Abram -- The drunkenness of Noah -- The Tower of Babel: Text and preface -- Mesopotamian connections -- Babel in its biblical setting -- "The primeval history": An overview".
- catalog description "6. Events in the life of Abraham -- Abram the noble warrior -- The covenant (concluded) between the (animal) parts -- Episode A: Revelation, promise (and trust) -- Episode B: How the covenant was made -- Abram's other wife -- The names of God in Genesis, chapters 16 and 21 -- The annunciation of Isaac's birth -- two versions -- Annunciation's aftermath -- YHWH and Abraham in a dialogue on God's justice -- The story of Lot -- The names of God in Genesis, Chapters 18 and 19 -- Three domestic triangles -- Poetical review of the names of God -- The madness of Father Abraham: Genesis 22 -- Comparing the Akeda with another binding -- Isaac and Iphigenia, Abraham and Agamemnon: A comparison".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 458-459) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I Stories -- "The primeval history" -- 2. The creation story in Genesis, Ch. 1:1-2:4A -- The bearing of Enuma elish on Genesis 1 -- The Genesis Creation story: Translation -- The Genesis Creation story: Commentary on days one to six -- Review of diction in the six days of creation -- Literalism and metaphor in Genesis 1 and Enuma elish -- A poetic reading of Enuma elish -- Paganism and biblical religion compared and contrasted -- Pagan and biblical anthropology: a contrast -- 3. Eden and Eden's aftermath -- The story of Eden -- Sexuality, sapience, and civilization -- Sexuality and death: Their nexus -- Why must man die? -- The Eden mythos: Its kerygma -- Aftermath of Eden: Second generation, second banishment -- Poetical review of Eden vis-a-vis the Creation story -- Poetical review of the names of God -- The compound name: YHWH-Elohim -- Excursus: The nonliterary approach to Cain and Abel -- Poetical review of Genesis 1-5".
- catalog description "Part II: Structures -- 7. Structures as a biblical literary phenomenon -- Genealogies and chronologies of Cain and Seth -- Genealogies continued: The line of Shem -- The chronologies of the lines of Seth and Shem -- Chronology as clue to narrative: The missing years in Jacob's life -- How four hundred years can equal four generations -- Playing the Bible's number game: another solution -- Abram's roots and uprootings -- Abraham's revelations and altars -- Digging wells in Philistia -- Addendum: Two more genealogies and another numbers game -- 8. Poetical odds and addends -- Apologia -- In re Genesis 1: Scripture and the mythopoeic imagination -- Paganism, ancient and modern: metaphysics in myth and science -- The Sabbath: its meaning -- The septets of (social) morality -- The Sabbath Day in the two decalogues: A poetical comparison -- Two more addends.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 462 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195109651 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "222/.1106 20".
- catalog subject "BS1235.2 .B75 1998".
- catalog subject "Bible. Genesis Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Bible. Genesis Criticism, interpretation, etc.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The names of God: The problem: A preliminary review -- A meta-literary address to the problem: Source analysis -- An essentially literary address to the problem: Cassuto -- The names of God in nonnarrative texts and the "evolution" of biblical monotheism -- Excursus: On the name of God in the Psalter -- On the evolution of biblical monotheism -- On terms for divinity, common and proper -- The names 'Elohim and YHWH -- YHWH introduces Himself by name -- The patriarch's use of the name YHWH -- The solution to the problem: A (literary) hypothesis".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. The floods of Noah and Utnapishtim: Theology straight and theology satiric -- On floods and birds; on literalness and source analysis -- The Babylonian Flood story -- The Babylonian Flood story as a critique of paganism -- The biblical Flood story: Text -- On the sources or strands in the Flood story: A preliminary discussion -- Poetical review of the Flood story -- A note on the strands -- Noah's deluge and Utnapishtim's: A comparison -- 5. From Noah to Abram -- The drunkenness of Noah -- The Tower of Babel: Text and preface -- Mesopotamian connections -- Babel in its biblical setting -- "The primeval history": An overview".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Events in the life of Abraham -- Abram the noble warrior -- The covenant (concluded) between the (animal) parts -- Episode A: Revelation, promise (and trust) -- Episode B: How the covenant was made -- Abram's other wife -- The names of God in Genesis, chapters 16 and 21 -- The annunciation of Isaac's birth -- two versions -- Annunciation's aftermath -- YHWH and Abraham in a dialogue on God's justice -- The story of Lot -- The names of God in Genesis, Chapters 18 and 19 -- Three domestic triangles -- Poetical review of the names of God -- The madness of Father Abraham: Genesis 22 -- Comparing the Akeda with another binding -- Isaac and Iphigenia, Abraham and Agamemnon: A comparison".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I Stories -- "The primeval history" -- 2. The creation story in Genesis, Ch. 1:1-2:4A -- The bearing of Enuma elish on Genesis 1 -- The Genesis Creation story: Translation -- The Genesis Creation story: Commentary on days one to six -- Review of diction in the six days of creation -- Literalism and metaphor in Genesis 1 and Enuma elish -- A poetic reading of Enuma elish -- Paganism and biblical religion compared and contrasted -- Pagan and biblical anthropology: a contrast -- 3. Eden and Eden's aftermath -- The story of Eden -- Sexuality, sapience, and civilization -- Sexuality and death: Their nexus -- Why must man die? -- The Eden mythos: Its kerygma -- Aftermath of Eden: Second generation, second banishment -- Poetical review of Eden vis-a-vis the Creation story -- Poetical review of the names of God -- The compound name: YHWH-Elohim -- Excursus: The nonliterary approach to Cain and Abel -- Poetical review of Genesis 1-5".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part II: Structures -- 7. Structures as a biblical literary phenomenon -- Genealogies and chronologies of Cain and Seth -- Genealogies continued: The line of Shem -- The chronologies of the lines of Seth and Shem -- Chronology as clue to narrative: The missing years in Jacob's life -- How four hundred years can equal four generations -- Playing the Bible's number game: another solution -- Abram's roots and uprootings -- Abraham's revelations and altars -- Digging wells in Philistia -- Addendum: Two more genealogies and another numbers game -- 8. Poetical odds and addends -- Apologia -- In re Genesis 1: Scripture and the mythopoeic imagination -- Paganism, ancient and modern: metaphysics in myth and science -- The Sabbath: its meaning -- The septets of (social) morality -- The Sabbath Day in the two decalogues: A poetical comparison -- Two more addends.".
- catalog title "The names of God : poetic readings in biblical beginnings / Herbert Chanan Brichto.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".