of the term in scholarship, and the particular problems posed by the ancient Near Eastern material. The approach towards mythology in this chapter does not pretend to cover all the myths available or to categorize them. Instead, the attempt is to show how the mythological texts cover some of the issues that are often raised when discussing religion, such as theology, life and death, and the origins of the world. Since, as shown in the previous chapter, the history of Mesopotamia changed significantly
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