| Description |
xx, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Creation now and then -- Mystery of the missing chaos -- "Floods of truth": sex, love and loathing of the deep -- Part II: Orthodoxies of nothing -- "Tears of Achamoth": the fathers' ex nihilo -- "Mother most dear": Augustine's dark secrets -- "Sterile waters": Barth's nothingness that is -- Part III: Monsters of hermeneutics -- "Sea of heteroglossia": return of the biblical chaos -- "Recesses of the deep": Job's comi-cosmic epiphany -- "Leviathanic revelations": Melville's hermenautical journey -- Part IV: Creatio ex profundis -- Bottomless surface: when beginning bereshit -- The pluri-singularity of creation: created God bara elohim -- Strange attractions: formless and void tohu vabohu -- Docta ignorantia: darkness on the face pne choshekh -- Ocean of divinity: deep tehom -- Pneumatic foam: spirit vibrating ruach elohim merahephet. |
| Subject |
Creation.
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Feminist theology.
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| ISBN |
0415256488 |
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0415256496 paperback |
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