In the Beginning John Randolph ''--Jacques Bouchard

''--Jacques Bouchard

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and architecture and cities are being reinvented as not merely static structures

In the Beginning John Randolph ''--Jacques BouchardBernard F. Batto spent the bulk of his career examining the ancient Near Eastern context of the Hebrew Bible, with particular interest in the influence of the surrounding cultures on the biblical creation stories. This collection gathers six of his most important previously published essays and adds two new contributions. Among the essays, Batto identifies various creation motifs prevalent in the ancient Near East and investigates the reflexes of