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<div>"New Perspectives on the Mythological Conception of the Mediterranean Sea in the World of the Old Testament"</div>
<div><b>Joanna </b><span><b>Töyräänvuori</b></span></div>
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In the Hebrew Bible the sea is referenced in different ways: as a feature of nature, as a geographic referent, as a poetic metaphor. But there are also some texts that seem to recall a mythological conception of the sea known to us from the wider ancient Near
East. But while the references to the sea in the Hebrew Bible are many, in most cases the texts represent rather late and often transformed examples of an ancient Northwest Semitic tradition -- a tradition that contained a political aspect that is key to the
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Helen M. Dixon</p>
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Center of Excellence in "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions"</p>
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Faculty of Theology, <span style="font-size:12pt">University of Helsinki</span></p>
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