Personified Mountains in Ancient Canonical Narratives

Spatial and Mythic Studies of Mesopotamian, Greek, and Hebrew Bible Landscapes

Eric J. P. Wagner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2024
Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)
978-3-16-163805-3 (ISBN)

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Ancient canonical narratives from Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Hebrew Bible fused landscapes (topographic space) and human bodies (corporeal space) when personifying mountains. Built environments (architectonic space) also correlated with these anthropomorphic landscapes. As blends of fundamental spatial categories, such mountains exemplified mythic space and minimally counter-intuitive concepts characteristic of religious cognition. In so far as these personified mountains expressed such "mythic thinking," they invite a re-reading informed by spatial and mythological analysis. Taking up this invitation, Eric J. P. Wagner focuses on the Epic of Gilgames, Homeric epic (the Iliad and Odyssey), and Genesis-2 Kings to identify and analyze personified mountains in each corpus. Ultimately, he traces the meaning(s) and function(s) of these "living landscapes" across each ancient narrative.

Born 1981; 2010 MDiv/MA (Theology); 2017 MPhil (Biblical Studies); 2021 PhD (Biblical Studies); 2010 Roman Catholic priest; parochial vicar in the diocese of Belleville, IL, USA; assistant professor of Old and New Testament at Aquinas Institute of Theology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
Verlagsort	Tübingen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 232 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Schlagworte	Cognition/Cognitive Science of Religion • Comparative approach • Epic of Gilgamesh • Genesis-2 Kings • Homeric Epic (Iliad/Odyssey)
ISBN-10	3-16-163805-0 / 3161638050
ISBN-13	978-3-16-163805-3 / 9783161638053
Zustand	Neuware