Embracing Inherent Chaos

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-428
Author(s):  
Damien Pascal Domenack
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Gender Expression ◽  
Nonbinary Gender ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Enuma Elish

Abstract In The Soul of the Stranger, Joy Ladin centers nonbinary gender expression in the first chapter of Genesis. Ladin articulates the opportunity for nonbinary gender categories by moving beyond the creation of the binary and focusing on Adam (humanity), who represents the whole of humanity. This review expands and creates an entry point for interreligious dialogue with African diasporic religions, by acknowledging humanity as a part of the interconnected balance of nature and recognizing the influence the Babylonian creation story, Enuma Elish, had on the the deep primordial oceanic chaos described as tehon in the Torah.

Berossus and the Creation Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Enuma Elish

Abstract This article investigates the fragments of the Babyloniaca of Berossus on creation. The following aspects are considered: the narrative structure of the book and how the account of creation is introduced, with broader implications for the cultural claims of Berossus and his peers; the relation between Berossus and previous Mesopotamian traditions, mainly the Babylonian Epic of Creation (Enuma elish), as well as possible evidence of Greek influence; and finally the view of human nature which is implicit in his account of the creation of humankind, notably the elimination of female agency and how his narrative relates to theories of human generation and the body that were current among the Babylonians, the Greeks, and the Egyptians.

Nonbinary Gender Identities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hegarty ◽  
Y. Gavriel Ansara ◽  
Meg-John Barker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Health Culture ◽  
Gender Binary ◽  
Nonbinary Gender ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
Binary Options ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Binary Gender

This chapter concerns nonbinary genders; identities and roles between or beyond gender categories such as the binary options ‘women and men,’ for example. We review the emerging literature on people who do not identify with such binary gender schemes, unpack the often-implicit logic of thinking about others through the lens of gender binary schemes, and briefly describe some other less-researched, but longstanding cultural gender systems which recognize nonbinary genders. This chapter makes the case that consideration of nonbinary genders is germane to several core topics in psychology including identity, mental health, culture, social norms, language, and cognition.

The Angels

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Great Care ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mount Sinai

This chapter examines rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Enoch-Metatron, being transformed into the highest of all angels and becoming a divine figure next to God, stands at the extreme (Babylonian) end of a much larger spectrum of rabbinic attitudes toward the angels. Earlier Palestinian sources were vehemently opposed to any such possibility of the angels being granted a role transcending their traditional task of praising God and acting as his messengers. This is particularly true for the creation story and the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai. With regard to the former, the rabbis set great store in pointing out that the angels were not created on the first day of creation—to make sure that nobody should arrive at the dangerous idea that these angels participated in the act of creation. Similarly, the rabbis took great care in not granting the angels too active a role during the revelation of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

Beginning and End: Exploring the Qur͗anic ‘Grand Story’

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Human Attributes

This chapter discusses the Qur'anic ‘grand story’, which refers to the underlying, basic conceptual scheme that informs Qur'anic stories and bestows meaning and coherence on them. Ths basic conceptual scheme is predicated on a relationship between humankind and God that leads to either salvation or damnation. In expressing this relationship, the Qur'anic narrative form turns God into a person with a dramatic presence and human attributes. The chapter reflects on the beginnings as expressed by the creation story and on the eschatological future. It cites the cosmic beginning as the seed of the Qur'anic grand story; this beginning is a preparation of the physical stage for the climactic moment of the human beginning when God creates Adam. It also explains how the creation story and the specificity of the ‘Adamic beginning’ relate to the grand story.

The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Craig Santos Perez
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Related Issue ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Western Pacific

Abstract This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu’una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu’una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.

How to Start a Cosmogony: On the Poetics of Beginnings in Greece and the Near East

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Carolina López-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Enuma Elish ◽  
The Universe

AbstractIn this essay I explore the beginning lines of the most relevant cosmogonies from the eastern Mediterranean, focusing on theEnuma Elish, Genesis 1 and Hesiod’sTheogony. These opening lines reveal some of the challenges faced by the authors of these texts when committing to the written word their version of the beginning of the universe. Hesiod’sTheogonywill be treated in more length as it presents an expanded introduction to the creation account. This close reading is followed by a few reflections on the question of authorship of these and other Greek and Near Eastern cosmogonies.

scholarly journals SECRETS OF CREATION IN 2 (SLAVONIC) ENOCH

Scrinium ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-450
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Orlov
Keyword(s):  
Creation Story ◽  
Esoteric Knowledge ◽  
The Creation

The article explores the theme of the secrets of creation in 2 Enoch. The Slavonic pseudepigraphon appears to contain a systematic tendency of treating the story of creation as containing the most esoteric knowledge. Even though 2 Enoch deals with various meterological, astronomical, and cosmological re-velations, it specifically emphasizes the «secrecy» of the account of creation. 2 Enoch s emphasis on the «secrecy» of the creation story demonstrates an in-triguing parallel to the later rabbinic approach to as esoteric knowledge. 2 Enoch, therefore, can be seen as an important step in the shaping of the later rabbinic understanding of «secret things», which eventually led to the esoterism of the Account of Creation.

The Creation of Person, the Creation of Place: Hunting Landscapes in The American Southwest

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Potter
Keyword(s):  
American Southwest ◽  
Landscape Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
Game Animals

Because people conceptualize the land on which they live metaphorically, it is suggested that metaphor theory is an important component of landscape theory. One kind of metaphorically charged landscape is the hunting landscape, a type of gendered landscape that embodies hunting and animal metaphors related to gender categories and provides a field on which to perform and establish maleness. Two archaeological examples of hunting landscapes in the American Southwest are explored to show how hunting and its associated landscapes facilitate the creation and substantiation of the male persona through metaphorical linkages between humans and animals, hunting and warfare, and game animals and women.

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