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Ancient canonical narratives from Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Hebrew Bible fused landscapes (topographic space) and human bodies (corporeal space) when personifying mountains. Built environments (architectonic space) also correlated with these anthropomorphic landscapes. As blends of fundamental spatial categories, such mountains exemplified mythic space and minimally counter-intuitive concepts characteristic of religious cognition. In so far as these personified mountains expressed such "mythic thinking," they invite a re-reading informed by spatial and mythological analysis. Taking up this invitation, Eric J. P. Wagner focuses on the Epic of Gilgameš, Homeric epic (the Iliad and Odyssey), and Genesis-2 Kings to identify and analyze personified mountains in each corpus. Ultimately, he traces the meaning(s) and function(s) of these "living landscapes" across each ancient narrative.
Price: £142.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
Publication Date:
31 December 2025
ISBN: 9783161638053
Format: Hardcover
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Born 1981; 2010 MDiv/MA (Theology); 2017 MPhil (Biblical Studies); 2021 PhD (Biblical Studies); 2010 Roman Catholic priest; parochial vicar in the diocese of Belleville, IL, USA; assistant professor of Old and New Testament at Aquinas Institute of Theology.
Chapter 1: Introduction1. Approaching Personified Mountains in Ancient Canonical Narratives - 2. Project Goals, Findings, and Outline Chapter 2: The Argument's Nature, Shape, and Objects1. The Nature of the Argument: Abductive - 2. The Approach: Comparative - 3. The Method: Mythic Spatial and Myth-Critical - 4. The Objects of Study - 5. Summation Chapter 3: Personified Mountains in the Epic of Gilgameš1. Introduction - 2. The Epic of Gilgameš as Canonical Narrative - 3. Lexical Analysis of "Mountain" Terms in the Epic of Gilgameš - 4. Mythic Analysis of Personified Mountains in the Epic of Gilgameš - 5. Summation Chapter 4: Personified Mountains in the Iliad and Odyssey1. Introduction - 2. The Iliad and Odyssey as Canonical Narratives - 3. Lexical Analysis of "Mountain" Terms in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey - 4. Mythic Analysis of Personified Mountains in the Iliad and Odyssey - 5. Summation Chapter 5: Personified Mountains in Genesis-2 Kings1. Introduction - 2. Genesis-2 Kings as Canonical Narrative - 3. Lexical Analysis of "Mountain" Terms in Genesis-2 Kings - 4. Mythic Analysis of Personified Mountains in Genesis-2 Kings - 5. Summation Chapter 6: Conclusion1. Summation of Findings - 2. Key Contributions and Avenues for Future Research