The Flood Myth (1988 Dundes) edited volume
Alan Dundes (ed.), The Flood Myth (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988).
Abstract
Contents
The flood (Genesis 6-9) -- The two flood stories in Genesis / Norman C. Habel -- The Chaldean account of the deluge / George Smith -- Some observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian flood stories / Daniel Hämmerly-Dupuy -- The Atrahasis epic and its significance for our understanding of Genesis 1-9 / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- The story of the flood in the light of comparative Semitic mythology / Eleanor Follansbee -- Stories of the creation and the flood / Leonard Woolley -- New light on Ovid's story of Philemon and Baucis / W.M. Calder -- The great flood / James George Frazer -- The principle of retribution in the flood and catastrophe myths / Hans Kelsen -- The flood myth as vesical dream / Géza Róheim -- The flood as male myth of creation / Alan Dundes -- An analysis of the deluge myth in Mesoamerica / Fernando Horcasitas -- Historical changes as reflected in South American Indian myths / Annamária Lammel -- Noah's ark revisited : on the myth-land connection in traditional Australian aboriginal thought / Erich Kolig -- Myth motifs in flood stories from the grassland of Cameroon / Emmi Kähler-Meyer -- The flood motif and the symbolism of rebirth in Filipino mythology / Francisco Demetrio -- The flood : three northern Kammu versions of the story of creation / Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin -- The deluge myth of the Bhils of central India / Wilhelm Koppers -- The Tamil flood myths and the Cankam legend / David Shulman -- Noah and the flood in Jewish legend / Louis Ginzberg -- The devil in the ark (AaTh825) / Francis Lee Utley -- Science and the universality of the flood / Don Cameron Allen -- Geology and orthodoxy : the case of Noah's flood in eighteenth-century thought / Rhoda Rappaport -- Charles Lyell and the Noachian deluge / James R. Moore -- Creationism : Genesis vs. geology / Stephen Jay Gould.
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