%0 Book %E Averbeck, Richard E. %E Batto, Bernard F %E Beal, Richard H %E Benz, Brendon C %E Campbell, Dennis R. M %E Feinman, Peter %E Frayne, Douglas %E Gilan, Amir %E Lambert, W. G %E Lundström, Steven %E Melvin, David %E Miller Ii, Robert D %E Pitard, Wayne T %E Scurlock, JoAnn %E Scurlock, JoAnn %E Sonik, Karen %E Tugendhaft, Aaron %E Töyräänvuori, Joanna %I Penn State University Press %D 2021 %C University Park, PA %G English %@ 9781575068657 %T Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel's Chaoskampf Hypothesis %U https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781575068657 %U https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781575068657.jpg %U https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068657 %X Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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” -- On the Theogonies of Hesiod and the Hurrians An Exploration of the Dual Natures of Teššub and Kumarbi -- Creation in the Bible and the Ancient Near East -- Searching for Meaning in Genesis 1:2 Purposeful Creation out of Chaos without Kampf -- Part 2. Monster-Bas hing Myths -- The Fifth Day of Creation in Ancient Syrian and Neo-Hittite Art -- Once upon a Time in Kiškiluša The Dragon-Slayer Myth in Central Anatolia -- The Northwest Semitic Conflict Myth and Egyptian Sources from the Middle and New Kingdoms -- Yamm as the Personification of Chaos? A Linguistic and Literary Argument for a Case of Mistaken Identity -- Part 3. Gunkel and His Times -- Chaos and Creation Hermann Gunkel between Establishing the “History of Religions School,” Acknowledging Assyriology, and Defending the Faith -- Where Is Eden? An Analysis of Some of the Mesopotamian Motifs in Primeval J -- Babel-Bible-Baal -- Part 4. Power and Politics -- The Combat Myth as a Succession Story at Ugarit -- What Are the Nations Doing in the Chaoskampf? -- Part 5. Kampf and Chao -- The Combat Myth in Israelite Tradition Revisited -- The Three “Daughters” of Baʿal and Transformations of Chaoskampf in the Early Chapters of Genesis -- Part 6. Chaos and (Re)Creation -- Chaoskampf Lost—Chaoskampf Regained The Gunkel Hypothesis Revisited -- Making All Things New (Again) Zephaniah’s Eschatological Vision of a Return to Primeval Time -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Texts and Objects -- Index of Words