TY  - BOOK
AU  - Averbeck,Richard E.
AU  - Batto,Bernard F.
AU  - Beal,Richard H.
AU  - Benz,Brendon C.
AU  - Campbell,Dennis R.M.
AU  - Feinman,Peter
AU  - Frayne,Douglas
AU  - Gilan,Amir
AU  - Lambert,W.G.
AU  - Lundström,Steven
AU  - Melvin,David
AU  - Miller Ii,Robert D.
AU  - Pitard,Wayne T.
AU  - Scurlock,JoAnn
AU  - Sonik,Karen
AU  - Tugendhaft,Aaron
AU  - Töyräänvuori,Joanna
TI  - Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis 
SN  - 9781575068657
AV  - BL1060 .C74 2013eb
U1  - 202/.4 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Creation
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Mythology, Middle Eastern
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Hermann Gunkel was a scholar in the generation of the origins of Assyriology, the spectacular discovery by George Smith of fragments of the "Chaldean Genesis," and the Babel-Bibel debate. Gunkel's thesis, inspired by materials supplied to him by the Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern, was to take the Chaoskampf motif of Revelation as an event that would not only occur at the end of the world but had already happened at the beginning, before Creation. In other words, in this theory, one imagines God in Genesis 1 as first having battled Rahab, Leviathan, and Yam (the forces of Chaos) in a grand battle, and only then beginning to create.The problem with Gunkel's theory is that it did not simply identify common elements in the mythologies of the ancient Near East but imposed upon them a structure dictating the relationships between the elements, a structure that was based on inadequate knowledge and a forced interpretation of his sources. On the other hand, one is not entitled to insist that there was no cultural conversation among peoples who spent the better part of several millennia trading with, fighting, and conquering one another.Creation and Chaos attempts to address some of these issues. The contributions are organized into five sections that address various aspects of the issues raised by Gunekl's theories
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068657?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575068657
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781575068657/original
ER  -