1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453295403321

Titolo

Creation and Chaos : A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis / / edited by JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, Indiana : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-57506-865-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BealRichard Henry

ScurlockJo Ann

Disciplina

202/.4

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Mythology, Middle Eastern

Monsters

Creation - Mythology

Religion and politics - Middle East - History - To 1500

Monsters - Middle East

Creation - Mythology - Middle East

History

Livres electroniques.

Electronic books.

Middle East

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.

Titre de l'ecran-titre (visionne le 6 mai 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Part 1""; ""Creation and Chaos""; ""From Hesiod's Abyss to Ovid's  rudis indigestaque moles""; ""Chaos and Cosmos in the Babylonian Epic of Creation""; ""Karen Sonik""; ""On the Theogonies of  Hesiod and the Hurrians""; ""An Exploration of the Dual Natures  of Teššub and Kumarbi""; ""Dennis R. M. Campbell""; ""Creation in the Bible and  the Ancient Near East""; ""W. G. Lambert;""; ""Searching for Meaning in Genesis 1:2""; ""Purposeful Creation out of Chaos without Kampf""; ""JoAnn Scurlock""; ""Part 2""



""Monster-Bashing Myths""""The Fifth Day of Creation  in Ancient Syrian and Neo-Hittite Art""; ""Douglas Frayne""; ""Once upon a Time in KiÅ¡kiluÅ¡a""; ""The Dragon-Slayer Myth in Central Anatolia""; ""Amir Gilan""; ""The Northwest Semitic Conflict Myth  and Egyptian Sources from the  Middle and New Kingdoms""; ""Joanna Tinvuori""; ""Yamm as the Personification of Chaos?""; ""A Linguistic and Literary Argument  for a Case of Mistaken Identity""; ""Brendon C. Benz""; ""Part 3""; ""Gunkel and His Times""; ""Chaos and Creation""

""Hermann Gunkel between Establishing the  History of Religions School, Acknowledging Assyriology,  and Defending the Faith""""Steven Lundstrom""; ""Where Is Eden?""; ""An Analysis of Some of the  Mesopotamian Motifs in Primeval J""; ""Peter Feinman""; ""Babel-Bible-Baal""; ""Aaron Tugendhaft""; ""Part 4""; ""Power and Politics""; ""The Combat Myth as a  Succession Story at Ugarit""; ""Wayne T. Pitard""; ""What Are the Nations  Doing in the Chaoskampf?""; ""Robert D. Miller II""; ""Part 5""; ""Kampf and Chaos""; ""The Combat Myth in  Israelite Tradition Revisited""

""Bernard F. Batto""""The Three Daughters of BaÊ¿al  and Transformations of Chaoskampf  in the Early Chapters of Genesis""; ""Richard E. Averbeck""; ""Part 6""; ""Chaos and (Re)Creation""; ""Chaoskampf Lost Chaoskampf Regained""; ""The Gunkel Hypothesis Revisited""; ""JoAnn Scurlock""; ""Making All Things New (Again)""; ""Zephaniah's Eschatological Vision  of a Return to Primeval Time""; ""David Melvin""

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969861603321

Titolo

The western in the global south / / edited by MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, and Dayna Oscherwitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-55106-0

1-315-73113-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Routledge Advances in Film Studies ; ; 34

Altri autori (Persone)

HigginsMaryEllen <1967->

KeresztesiRita

OscherwitzDayna <1970->

Disciplina

791.43/65878

791.4365878

Soggetti

Western films - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Colonial circulations of the western in the global south -- pt. 2. The western in sub-saharan Africa and the Caribbean -- pt. 3. The western in Australia and Asia -- pt. 4. South American, Mexican and borderlands westerns.

Sommario/riassunto

The Western in the Global South investigates the Western film genre's impact, migrations, and reconfigurations in the Global South. Contributors explore how cosmopolitan directors have engaged with, appropriated, and subverted the tropes and conventions of Hollywood and Italian Westerns, and how Global South Westerns and Post-Westerns in particular address the inequities brought about by postcolonial patriarchy, globalization and neoliberalism. The book offers a wide range of historical engagements with the genre, from African, Caribbean, South and Southeast Asian, Central and South American, and transnational directors. The contributors employ interdisciplinary cultural studies approaches to cinema, integrating aesthetic considerations with historical, political, and gender studies readings of the international appropriations and U.S. re-appropriations of the Western genre.