JUS 372A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Esagila, Kishar, Ganachakra
24 Oct 2016
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A myth is a traditional story or a widely-held belief, tradition, or idea. Religious: martin luther throwing bottle of ink, greek mythology. Urban: pop rocks and coke can kill you. Mu(cid:272)h of torah is esse(cid:374)tially a(cid:374)(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t israel"s (cid:373)ythology. Gods create each other through sexual union, starting with tiamat and apsu. Younger gods disturb apsu, who decides to kill them. Marduk faces tiamat, and cuts her in half. Creates sky and sea from her two halves. 1st story, animals created on the 6th day, before people. Tehom translated as abyss in gen. 1. 2. Not as many as enuma elich and biblical version. Like the ee, the egyptian gods fight each other. Egypt is closer to israel, but more distance culturally. She wrote it to erase traditional interpretations of bible. Aimed at feminists who rejected bible because of views that eve ruined everything for everyone forever. Her arguments include that male is meaningless without female to compare himself against.
