Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology
- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an
- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs
- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins
- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences