Hermann Gunkel’s groundbreaking Schöpfung und Chaos, originally published in German in 1895, is here translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Even though available only in German, this work by Gunkel has had a profound influence on modern biblical scholarship.

Discovering a number of parallels between the biblical creation accounts and a Babylonian creation account, the Enuma Elish, Gunkel argues that ancient Babylonian traditions shaped the Hebrew people’s perceptions both of God’s creative activity at the beginning of time and of God’s re-creative activity at the end of time.

Including illuminating introductory pieces by eminent scholar Peter Machinist and by translator K. William Whitney, Gunkel’s Creation and Chaos will appeal to serious students and scholars in the area of biblical studies.

456 pages; dimensions (in inches): 6.25 x 9.25
Series: The Biblical Resource Series

Contents:

Foreword, by Peter Machinist
Translator's Preface
Transliteration
Introduction
GENESIS 1: CREATION IN THE PRIMORDIAL AGE
- Literature (Concerning the Babylonian Origin of Genesis 1)
- Genesis 1 Is Not a Free Construction of the Author
- The Babylonian Cosmogony
- Allusions to the Myth of the Struggle of Marduk against Ti’āmat in the Old Testament, apart from Genesis 1
- The Babylonian Origin of the Creation Account of Genesis 1, Its Character and the Time of Its Introduction into Israel

Revelation 12: CREATION IN THE END TIME
- Revelation 12 Is Not of Christian Origin.
- The Interpretation of Revelation 12 according to "Contemporaneous Exegesis"
- Revelation Is Not of Jewish Origin.
- Babylonian Material in Later Judaism
- The Tradition of Revelation 12 Is of Babylonian Origin.

APPENDICES
The Babylonian Creation Epic
The Second Babylonian Recension of the Ti’āmat-Marduk Battle
The Second Babylonian Recension of the Creation
The Adapa Myth
The Flood

Bibliography

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ISBN: 9780802828040
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: WM B EERDMANS PUB CO - published 15/08/2006
Format: Paperback