Thesiss

This study utilizes ideas about social formation, mythmaking, and discourse to examine human reception and treatment of divine secret knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia and biblical Israel. The study contends that although the origin of secret knowledge was rooted in a common myth…

Sex appears as a prominent literary theme in Near Eastern mythology. As a mysterious power that inexplicably draws humans together and that can miraculously result in the creation of new life, sex served in these traditions as a force connected with the most powerful beings in t…