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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A collection of flood myths from around the world. Old book but still good reference. Also read "The Flood Myth" ed. Dundes for some more up to date discussion from a variety of authors. ( ) A comprehensive look at flood myths from around the world. Frazier groups them by continent, and gives all the details that were known about the myths, including late modifications (often added after Christian missionaries had come to the area). He also looks at crucial features that might be driving the myths, such as the geography or geology of the area, including such things as marine fossils on the tops of mountains, or interrelationships with other cultures that already had a flood myth. He looks for flood myths older than the Genesis story of Noah, and finds a few, indicating that the story was not original to the Hebrew Bible. While not quite at the same level as his sublime "The Golden Bough", the book is still very thoroughly researched and well written. Highly recommended for anyone looking at comparative religions. While the book is many decades old, I have seen little since that has been so comprehensive, though of course there are some things that are wrong because biblical criticism has continued to progress. This information is easily obtainable for other books to update what the author was unable to include in his work. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941), the famed author of The Golden Bough, examines the prevalence of flood myths around the world to identify the folkloric origins of the widespread belief that the world was once submerged beneath the waters while only a few humans survived. Writing in the introduction to this remarkable volume, Frazer explains his goal: "My purpose is to discover how the narratives arose, and how they came to be so widespread over the earth; with the question of their truth or falsehood I am not primarily concerned, though of course it cannot be ignored in considering the problem of their origin." Frazer sought no simple answer; indeed, he concluded that flood myths have a range of origins, including both independent developments and diffusion from a common source. Today, Frazer's collection of world flood myths remains one of the most comprehensive ever assembled and a treasury of information for students of comparative mythology.About the BookThe Great Flood grew out of Frazer's 1916 Huxley Lecture at the Royal Anthropological Institute and was published as the fourth chapter of Frazer's Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918). This edition reprints the complete text of The Great Flood along with an abridged selection of the original notes. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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