D. Winton Thomas
Autor(a) de Documents from Old Testament Times
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Obras por D. Winton Thomas
Archaeology and Old Testament study: jubilee volume of the Society for Old Testament Study, 1917-1967 (1967) 17 exemplares
Documents from Old Testament times 2 exemplares
The Prophet in the Lachish Ostraca 2 exemplares
The Text of the Revised Psalter 1 exemplar
Liber Jesaiae [Biblia Hebraica Suttgartensia, 7] (Biblia Hebraica Stuttgertensia, Liber Jesaiae) (1968) 1 exemplar
Book of Haggai : introduction and exegesis in the Interpreter's Bible v6 (LAM-B12) pp 1037-1052 1 exemplar
The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language 1 exemplar
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- Nome legal
- Thomas, David Winton
- Outros nomes
- Thomas, D. W.
Thomas, D. Winton - Data de nascimento
- 1901
- Sexo
- male
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- Obras
- 16
- Membros
- 417
- Popularidade
- #58,443
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
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- 1
One thing I found particularly interesting were the texts about Baal from Ras Shamra. Baal is a fertility God who dies and rises in the Spring and after his death a Goddess goes and looks for his body. I believe a similar thing happens to Osiris. It reminded me of another local God who is searched for by a female after his death. I think they call him Jesus Christ.
But one thing is so astounding it literally blew my lips off. This is the Enuma Elish, the creation myth of Babylonia. It recounts the exploits of one Marduk who has gob-smacking similarities to God in Genesis chapter one and makes clear a number of things like how he can create with a word, what the Spirit of God is, what the Deep is, what it means to create man in his image and who the hell God is talking to in Genesis 1:26. These similarities must have been immediately apparent to the people who read Genesis when it was first written. Once I'd got over my shock it was the differences between the two stories that began to stand out and for the first time I began to interpret the story in Genesis rather than just enjoying it. In the Enuma Elish man is created as a slave “that the gods may then have rest” but in Genesis man is created that he might “have dominion over the fish of the sea” etc. In other words we have the ground-breaking concept that man is important.… (mais)