LEADER 04339nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910456495003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-57506-563-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575065632 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039297 035 $a(OCoLC)747412028 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10483368 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000645328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12329610 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10680489 035 $a(PQKB)11378629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155520 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155520 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483368 035 $a(OCoLC)922991572 035 $a(DE-B1597)584188 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575065632 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039297 100 $a20050405d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreation and destruction$b[electronic resource] $ea reappraisal of the Chaoskampf theory in the Old Testament /$fDavid Toshio Tsumura 210 $aWinona Lake, Ind. $cEisenbrauns$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aRev. and expanded ed. of: The earth and the waters in Genesis 1 and 2. 311 $a1-57506-106-6 327 $apt. 1. Creation narratives in Genesis -- pt. 2. The Chaoskampf motif in poetic texts. 330 $aIn 1989, David Tsumura published a monograph entitled The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Evaluation, in which he demonstrated that the oft-recited claim that the early chapters of Genesis betrayed a background or adaptation by Israel of mythological terms and/or motifs from other ancient Near Eastern literature could not be supported by a close examination of the linguistic data. Despite the book?s positive reception, the notion that the Chaoskampf motif lies behind the early chapters of Genesis continues to be rehearsed in the literature as if the data were incontrovertible.In this revised and expanded edition of the 1989 book, Tsumura carries the discussion forward. In part 1, the general thesis of the original work is restated in a significantly revised and expanded form; in the second part of this monograph, he expands the scope of his research to include a number of poetic texts outside the Primeval History, texts for which scholars often have posited an ancient Near Eastern mythological substratum. Among the questions asked are the following: What are the functions of ?waters? and ?flood? in biblical poetry? Do the so-called chaos dragons in the Old Testament, such as Leviathan, Rahab, and Yam, have anything to do with the creation motif in the biblical tradition? What is the relationship between these poetic texts and the Ugaritic myths of the Baal-Yam conflict? Are Psalms 18 and 29 ?adaptations? of Canaanite hymns, as suggested by some scholars?Among the conclusions that Tsumura reaches are these:(1) The phrase tohû wabohû has nothing to do with the idea of a chaotic state of the earth.(2) The term tehôm in Gen 1:2 is a Hebrew form derived from the Proto-Semitic *tiham-, ?ocean,? and it usually refers to the underground water that was overflowing and covering the entire surface of the earth in the initial state of creation.(3) The earth-water relationship in Gen 2:5?6 is different from that in Gen 1:2. In Gen 1:2, the earth was totally under the water; in Gen 2:5?6, only a part of the earth, the land, was watered by the ?ed-water, which was overflowing from an underground source.(4) The biblical poetic texts that are claimed to have been influenced by the Chaoskampf-motif of the ancient Near East in fact use the language of storms and floods metaphorically and have nothing to do with primordial combat. 606 $aCreation$xBiblical teaching 606 $aWater in the Bible 606 $aEarth in the Bible 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCreation$xBiblical teaching. 615 0$aWater in the Bible. 615 0$aEarth in the Bible. 676 $a222/.1106 700 $aTsumura$b David Toshio$0985971 701 $aTsumura$b David Toshio$0985971 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456495003321 996 $aCreation and destruction$92464202 997 $aUNINA