Antibabylonische Polemik im priesterlichen Schöpfungsbericht?
An examination of the suggestion of anti-Babylonian polemics in the priestly creation account - as it is often claimed - shows that there is no evidence for an anti-Babylonian orientation in Genesis 1. This is especially the case in regard to the creation of the heavenly bodies (Gen 1:14-19). Instea...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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Mohr Siebeck
2009
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Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
Year: 2009, Volume: 106, Issue: 2, Pages: 137-155 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 1,1-2,4b
/ Babylonia
/ Creation belief
/ Babylonian language
/ Culture
B Mesopotamia / Religion |
| RelBib Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament NBD Doctrine of Creation |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Genesis 1
B Bible. Genesis 1,14-19 B Genesis B Schöpfungserzählung B Priestly document |
| Summary: | An examination of the suggestion of anti-Babylonian polemics in the priestly creation account - as it is often claimed - shows that there is no evidence for an anti-Babylonian orientation in Genesis 1. This is especially the case in regard to the creation of the heavenly bodies (Gen 1:14-19). Instead we have to consider that Genesis 1 was part of an Eastern Mediterranean koiné, i.e. a culture area in which during the 7th century BCE a new form of natural science established itself that received its main impulses from Mesopotamia. |
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| ISSN: | 0044-3549 |
| Contains: | In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
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