The Most Magic Word (eBook)

Essays on Babylonian & Biblical Literature

William L Moran (Autor)

R. S. Handel (Herausgeber)

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2023
212 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-6667-8685-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book brings together a valuable collection of 14 previously published essays (and one not published) filled with insight and erudition by William L. Moran. He for many years was the Andrew Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He had studied with W. F. Albright, Benno Landsberger, and Thorkild Jacobson and taught Assyriology at Harvard. They include "The Creation of Man in Atrahasis I 192-249"; "New Evident from Mari on the History of Prophecy"; The ANE Background of the Love of God in Deuteronomy"; "The Babylonian Job" and "The epic of Gilgamesh: A Document of Ancient Humanism."

Autor

William L. Moran (1921–2000) taught biblical studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and was professor of Assyriology at Harvard University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: Babylonian • Biblical • Biblical Criticism and Interpretation • Biblical Studies • Christianity • Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts • Essays • Literature • Magic • Most • Religion: general • R. S. Handel • The Most Magic Word • William L Moran • WORD
• ISBN-10: 1-6667-8685-3 / 1666786853
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6667-8685-9 / 9781666786859