Chaos to Cosmos: Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation

by Susan Niditch

Originally Published by Scholars Press
Now Available from Duke University Press A fresh look at Genesis 1:11 from the perspectives of comparative literature and cultural anthropology. Susan Niditch reveals how Hebrew narratives of chaos, creation, and cosmos structure a mythic-literary world and create an order for human existence. Both the scholar and the student will find Niditch’s imaginative interpretation illuminating.

Genres: Religion, Theology

114 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2000

Reviews

[Michael Walker]

The author is a mildly feminist Christian an Old Testament scholar teaching at Amherst. I've enjoyed her writings before, and was not disappointed with this short study. This work has nothing to do with feminism, although her conclusions push the Apostle Paul's claim that "In Christ, there is neither...male nor female." The book is fully annotated, as one would expect a scholarly work to be.