The Flood Myth

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The Flood Myth

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Author : Alan Dundes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1988

The Flood Myth written by Alan Dundes and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Social Science categories.

The Flood Myths Of Early China

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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

The Flood Myths Of Early China written by Mark Edward Lewis and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Religion categories.

Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire.

Noah S Ark And The Ziusudra Epic

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Author : Robert M. Best
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

Noah S Ark And The Ziusudra Epic written by Robert M. Best and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Great Flood

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Author : Sir James George Frazer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-31

The Great Flood written by Sir James George Frazer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Deluge categories.

Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941), the famed author of The Golden Bough, examines the prevalence of flood myths around the world to identify the folkloric origins of the widespread belief that the world was once submerged beneath the waters while only a few humans survived. Writing in the introduction to this remarkable volume, Frazer explains his goal: "My purpose is to discover how the narratives arose, and how they came to be so widespread over the earth; with the question of their truth or falsehood I am not primarily concerned, though of course it cannot be ignored in considering the problem of their origin." Frazer sought no simple answer; indeed, he concluded that flood myths have a range of origins, including both independent developments and diffusion from a common source. Today, Frazer's collection of world flood myths remains one of the most comprehensive ever assembled and a treasury of information for students of comparative mythology. About the Book The Great Flood grew out of Frazer's 1916 Huxley Lecture at the Royal Anthropological Institute and was published as the fourth chapter of Frazer's Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918). This edition reprints the complete text of The Great Flood along with an abridged selection of the original notes.

The Genesis Flood

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Author : John Clement Whitcomb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959

The Genesis Flood written by John Clement Whitcomb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Deluge categories.

The Ark Before Noah

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Author : Irving Finkel
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2014-03-25

The Ark Before Noah written by Irving Finkel and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with History categories.

The recent translation of a Babylonian tablet launches a groundbreaking investigation into one of the most famous stories in the world, challenging the way we look at ancient history. Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection. Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.

Noah S Flood

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Author : William Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998

Noah S Flood written by William Ryan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.

Political Myth

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Author : Christopher Flood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-02

Political Myth written by Christopher Flood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-02 with Religion categories.

First Published in 2002. Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative that purports to give a true account of a set of past, present, or predicted political events, widely accepted as valid in its essentials. Among the topics explored are: the historical line of political myth in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western political discourse; the characteristics of political myths and the forms they take in political life and the ends they serve; and the features of political ideologies that are most useful for understanding the nature of political myth.

The Real Story Of The Flood

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Author : Paul L. Maier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

The Real Story Of The Flood written by Paul L. Maier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bible stories, English categories.

In this picture book, scholar and author Paul L. Maier explains the Great Flood in a unique way. No myth or romanticized version, but the true story of mankind's second chance and our loving God's promise to preserve us for all time. Paul L. Maier wrote the Gold Medallion Book Award winner for children, The Very First Christmas, and three other Gold Medallion finalists, The Very First Easter and The Very First Christians, and Martin Luther. Dr. Maier lectures widely, appears frequently in national radio, television, and newspaper interviews, and has received numerous awards. Maier is the Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University.

Myths From Mesopotamia

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Author : Stephanie Dalley
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 2000

Myths From Mesopotamia written by Stephanie Dalley and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.

The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.