book cover: Markham J. Geller/ Mineke Schipper: Imagining creation (2008)
Publication
Imagining Creation

Imagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishing
ISBN
978-90-04-15765-1
Year
2008
Pages
424
Language
English
Series
Studies in Judaica / Institute of Jewish Studies; 5