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Interpretations of the flood / edited by Florentino García Martínez and Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.

Contributor(s): García Martínez, Florentino | Luttikhuizen, Gerard P
Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes in biblical narrative: v. 1.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 1998Description: xi, 202 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004112537 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Deluge -- Congresses | Bible. Genesis, VI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 222/.1106 LOC classification: BS658 | .I58 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Stories of the great flood: notes on Gen. 6:5-9:17 in its context of the ancient Near East / E. Noort -- Near Eastern and native traditions in Apollodorus' account of the flood / J.N. Bremmer -- Noah story: was it known to the Greeks? / A. Hilhorst -- Interpretation of the flood story in the Book of Jubilees / J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Interpretations of the flood in the Dead Sea Scrolls / F. García Martínez -- Biblical narrative in Gnostic revision: the story of Noah and the flood in classic Gnostic mythology / G.P. Luttikhuizen -- Lesson of the flood: ... in Rabbinic tradition / W.J. van Bekkum -- Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Christian theology: the ship of the Church in the making / H.S. Benjamins -- Flood and the scientific revolution: Thomas Burnet's system of natural providence / R. Vermij -- Where will the water stick? considerations of a psychoanalyst about the stories of the flood / P.M.G.P. Vandermeersch.

Based on papers originally presented at a conference, University of Groningen, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stories of the great flood: notes on Gen. 6:5-9:17 in its context of the ancient Near East / E. Noort -- Near Eastern and native traditions in Apollodorus' account of the flood / J.N. Bremmer -- Noah story: was it known to the Greeks? / A. Hilhorst -- Interpretation of the flood story in the Book of Jubilees / J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Interpretations of the flood in the Dead Sea Scrolls / F. García Martínez -- Biblical narrative in Gnostic revision: the story of Noah and the flood in classic Gnostic mythology / G.P. Luttikhuizen -- Lesson of the flood: ... in Rabbinic tradition / W.J. van Bekkum -- Noah, the ark, and the flood in early Christian theology: the ship of the Church in the making / H.S. Benjamins -- Flood and the scientific revolution: Thomas Burnet's system of natural providence / R. Vermij -- Where will the water stick? considerations of a psychoanalyst about the stories of the flood / P.M.G.P. Vandermeersch.

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