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Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Foreword by Peter Machinist: Hermann Gunkel's groundbreaking Schöpfung und Chaos, originally published in German in 1895, is here translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Even though available only in German, this work by Gunkel has had a profound influence on modern biblical scholarship. Discovering a number of parallels between the biblical creation accounts and a...

to go forth from the earth (2:6). Both are Canaanite ideas. The water is not the enemy who must be expelled that the world might arise. Rather, it is the friend without which the field would not bring forth. It is the blessing of God.40 Genesis 2, again characteristically, reflects this meditation on nature. In Genesis 1 the divinity overcomes the water. In Genesis 2 he creates it. The myth of Genesis 1 would, however, be completely understandable in Babylon.41 In connection with this, it is instructive
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