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In this book, Guy Darshan explores stories of origins that lie at the heart of Pentateuchal sources in the context of literature created in neighboring societies of the ancient Mediterranean world. A comparative study, his volume analyses the parallels between Biblical origin stories – the narrative traditions arranged in geneaological sequence that recount the beginnings of humanity and origins of peoples -- in tandem with ancient Greek genealogical writings from the 7–5th centuries BCE onwards. He also considers Phoenician and Anatolian sources from the first millennium, several of which have only been published in recent years. This is the first scholarly study to trace the origins of this genre of narrative and the circumstances that led to appearances in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Mediterranean literature. It sheds new light on our knowledge of the history of literature, as well as the interconnections and interrelations between civilizations of the pre-Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

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Guy Darshan is the Chair of the department of Biblical Studies at Tel Aviv University. He earned his academic degrees in Hebrew Bible and Classical Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania, and has received several prestigious academic grants and awards, including the 2014 David Noel Freedman Award. His research is devoted to the formation of the biblical literature and its text in the context of early eastern Mediterranean writings.

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