Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12

by Hermann Gunkel

Foreword by Peter Machinist

Hermann Gunkel's groundbreaking Sch pfung und Chaos, originally published in German in 1895, is here translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Even though available only in German, this work by Gunkel has had a profound influence on modern biblical scholarship.

Discovering a number of parallels between the biblical creation accounts and a Babylonian creation account, the Enuma Elish, Gunkel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802828043
• ISBN13: 9780802828040
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"