| dc.contributor.author | Sasson, Jack M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-03-02T20:08:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-03-02T20:08:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sasson, Jack M. "Time and Mortality: Creation Narratives in Ancient Israel and in Mesopotamia." Papers on Ancient Literatures: Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Proceedings of the "Advanced Seminar in the Humanities," Venice International University 2004-2005. Eds. Ettore Cingano and Lucio Milano. Padua: S.A.R.G.O.N. Editrice e Libreria, 2008. 489-509. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/3899 | |
| dc.description | Professor Sasson draws from Mesopotamian documents in this discussion on creation narratives in the Bible and the importance of the medium used in shaping the resulting narrative. Professor Sasson discusses the variety of materials used in writing in the ancient Near East including clay tablets, papyrus, leather, wood, stone, and others, then examines the effect of the materials used in the resulting work. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | "In Hellenistic Palestine, in an environment that gave birth to
rabbinic Judaism and to Christianity, speculations endlessly rehearsed the time, place,
opportunity, and conditions that would allow mortals to grasp what was achieved
momentarily by Adam and Eve. Two millennia later, we remain beguiled by the same
sources that intrigued them." | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | S.A.R.G.O.N Editrice e Libreria | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Creation -- Biblical teaching | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622 | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Bible -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Immortality -- Judaism | en_US |
| dc.title | Time and Mortality: Creation Narratives in Ancient Israel and in Mesopotamia | en_US |
| dc.type | Postprint | en_US |
| dc.description.school | Divinity School | en_US |
