Chaos to Cosmos: Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation

By Susan Niditch

Book Overview

Originally Published by Scholars Press
Now Available from Duke University Press

A fresh look at Genesis 1:11 from the perspectives of comparative literature and cultural anthropology. Susan Niditch reveals how Hebrew narratives of chaos, creation, and cosmos structure a mythic-literary world and create an order for human existence. Both the scholar and the student will find Niditch's imaginative interpretation illuminating.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089130763X
• ISBN13: 9780891307631
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 114 Pages