The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
The Mythic Mind follows the tradition of works which insist on the necessity for a comparative dimension in the study of ancient Israel. The Israelite world-view was essentially a West Semitic world-view in origin, with additional deeply embedded influences from Egypt and Mesopotamia, though it produced its own distinctive character by way of synthesis and reaction. The essays in this volume explore various aspects of this process, historically and cosmologically, commonly challenging...
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Wyatt (ancient Near East religions, U. of Edinburgh) assembles 13 essays he wrote between 1978 and 2004, standardizing the system of references, providing a common bibliography, and occasionally referring to more recent discussions. Among his topics are the significance of the burning bush, the darkness of Genesis 1.2, aqueous myths of the Near East, and androgyne in the Levantine world. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1The problem of the 'God of the fathers'1Ch. 2The development of the tradition in Exodus 36Ch. 3The significance of the burning bush13Ch. 4Who killed the dragon?18Ch. 5Sea and desert : symbolic geography in West Semitic religious thought38Ch. 6Symbols of exile55Ch. 7Of calves and kings : the Canaanite dimension in the religion of Israel72Ch. 8The darkness of Genesis 1.292Ch. 9The significance of Spn in West Semitic thought : a contribution to the history of a mythological motif102Ch. 10The vocabulary and neurology of orientation : the Ugaritic and Hebrew evidence125Ch. 11The mythic mind151Ch. 12'Water, water everywhere ...' : musings on the aqueous myths of the Near East189Ch. 13Androgyny in the Levantine world238
