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Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

By Harvey, Eric J.

Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel Law

Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

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Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader economic processes and institutions. These rituals were organized according to a common ideology of divine service, which portrayed the gods as an aristocratic leisure class whose material needs were provided by human beings. Resources for divine service were extracted from the productive sectors of society and channeled inward to the temple and palace institutions, where they served to satiate the gods and support their human servants. This Element examines various forms of the economics of divine service, and how they were supported in a selection of myths - Aträasis, Enki and Ninmä, and En¿ma Eliš from Mesopotamia and the story of the Garden of Eden from the southern Levant (Israel).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
88
Release Date:
2025-09-04
Publication Date:
2025-08-11
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009559915
ISBN13:
9781009559911
Weight:
142 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
5 cm
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