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Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume provides a thoughtful introduction to the literature of the ancient Near East and a well-considered apology for its importance to exegetical work. John Walton suggests that there are three important roles comparative studies can play in biblical interpretation: critical analysis, defense of the biblical text, and exegesis. He focuses particularly on the third aspect and its importance...

generations of gods.3 When the texts speak of theogony (origins of the gods) they include a number of elements in the presentation. In Egyptian literature it is most common to think of the earliest gods coming into being through bodily fluids (the creator god spitting, sneezing, sweating, or masturbating), while the later deities are simply born to a previous generation of deity. In the Memphite Theology the gods are brought into being by Atum separating them from himself.4 One way that creation
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