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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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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2009
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Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche
Year: 2009, Jahrgang: 106, Heft: 2, Pages: 137-155 |
| ISSN: | 0044-3549 |
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| Verfasserangaben: | von Jan Christian Gertz |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |