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Opening heaven's floodgates : the Genesis flood narrative, its context, and reception / edited by Jason M. Silverman.

Contributor(s): Silverman, Jason M [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical intersections: 12.Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013Description: xviii, 530 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781611438949; 1611438942Subject(s): Bible. Genesis, VI, 9-XI, 32 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Deluge | Noah's arkDDC classification: 222/.1106 LOC classification: BS1235.52 | .O64 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Noah's flood as myth and reception: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman -- It's all in the name: reading the Noah cycle in the light of its plot markers / Elizabeth Harper -- Sifting the debris: calendars and chronologies of the flood narrative / Philippe Guillaume -- Flood calendars and birds of the ark in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q252 and 4Q254a), Septuagint, and ancient Near East texts / Helen R. Jacobus -- "Woven of reeds": Genesis 6:14b as evidence for the preservation of the reed-hut Urheiligtum in the biblical flood narrative / Jason Michael McCann -- Major literary traditions involved in the making of Mesopotamian flood traditions / Y.S. Chen -- It's a craft! It's a cavern! It's a castle! Yima's Vara, Iranian flood myths, and Jewish apocalyptic traditions / Jason M. Silverman -- Flood stories in 1 Enoch 1-36: diversity, unity, and ideology / Ryan E. Stokes -- Somewhere under the rainbow: Noah's altar and the archaeology of cult in ancient Israel / Dermot Nestor -- "Go-4-wood": the reception of Noah's ark in ark replicas / Paul Brian Thomas -- Comparative theology and the flood narrative: the image of God / Máire Byrne -- The deluge: written differently: André Chouraqui's distinctive rendering of the flood narrative (Genesis 6:5-9:17 / Murray Watson -- The flood of Genesis: myth and logos. A philosophical examination / J. Haydn Gurmin -- Wicked hearts, grieving heart: the musical afterlife of the "flood narrative" in the nineteenth century / Siobhán Dowling Long -- After me, the rapture: eschatological rhetoric and the Genesis flood narrative / Cathriona Russell -- The flood narrative: a polysemy of promises / Amy Daughton -- A response (I) / Walter Brueggemann -- Inundated / Philip Davies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Noah's flood as myth and reception: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman -- It's all in the name: reading the Noah cycle in the light of its plot markers / Elizabeth Harper -- Sifting the debris: calendars and chronologies of the flood narrative / Philippe Guillaume -- Flood calendars and birds of the ark in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q252 and 4Q254a), Septuagint, and ancient Near East texts / Helen R. Jacobus -- "Woven of reeds": Genesis 6:14b as evidence for the preservation of the reed-hut Urheiligtum in the biblical flood narrative / Jason Michael McCann -- Major literary traditions involved in the making of Mesopotamian flood traditions / Y.S. Chen -- It's a craft! It's a cavern! It's a castle! Yima's Vara, Iranian flood myths, and Jewish apocalyptic traditions / Jason M. Silverman -- Flood stories in 1 Enoch 1-36: diversity, unity, and ideology / Ryan E. Stokes -- Somewhere under the rainbow: Noah's altar and the archaeology of cult in ancient Israel / Dermot Nestor -- "Go-4-wood": the reception of Noah's ark in ark replicas / Paul Brian Thomas -- Comparative theology and the flood narrative: the image of God / Máire Byrne -- The deluge: written differently: André Chouraqui's distinctive rendering of the flood narrative (Genesis 6:5-9:17 / Murray Watson -- The flood of Genesis: myth and logos. A philosophical examination / J. Haydn Gurmin -- Wicked hearts, grieving heart: the musical afterlife of the "flood narrative" in the nineteenth century / Siobhán Dowling Long -- After me, the rapture: eschatological rhetoric and the Genesis flood narrative / Cathriona Russell -- The flood narrative: a polysemy of promises / Amy Daughton -- Responses: A response (I) / Walter Brueggemann -- Inundated / Philip Davies.

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