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Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East

By Jan N. Bremmer

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Year
2008
ISBN
9004164731, 9789004164734
ISSN
1570-078X
Google Books ID
YTfxZH4QnqgC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1956031 bytes)
Series
Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 8
Pages
xviii+424\445
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-03-31 15:30:34

Description

In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East. This challenging book contributes greatly to this interest by studying the Near Eastern background of important Greek myths, such as those of the creation of the world and the first woman, the Flood, the Golden Fleece, the Titans and travelling seers, but also of the births of Attis and Asclepius as well as the origins of the terms 'paradise' and 'magic'. It also shows that, in turn, Greek literature influenced Jewish stories of divine epiphanies and that the Greek scapegoat myths and rituals contributed to the central Christian notion of atonement.

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