Date

2-7-2024

Department

Rawlings School of Divinity

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Theology and Apologetics (PhD)

Chair

Gary Yates

Keywords

Cosmology, Theogony, Theomachy, Cosmogony, Anthropogony, Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Syria, Anatolia, Ugarit, Canaan, Phoenicia, Egypt, Protology, Creation, Adam, Cain, Enoch, Noah, Nimrod, Tower of Babel, Eschatology, New Creation, Babylon the Great, New Jerusalem

Disciplines

Christianity | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion

Abstract

The city is an essential accomplishment that is embedded in the foundations of human civilization. From its mature appearance in Sumer and its developed forms throughout the ANE world, the city held a high place in cosmology, cosmogony, and anthropogony. The ideology and theology of the city created by the ANE peoples were built around and presented through the interplay of the triangle of influences and dependencies formed by the city, the temple, and kingship in conjunction with the gods. The question is whether the same construct is ingeminated in the Bible. This dissertation strives to provide an appropriate context in order to critically assess the relatedness between the ANE and biblical views on the city, specifically from the perspective of the biblical protology (Genesis 1–11) and eschatology (Revelation 21–22). It also aims to understand the biblical attitudes towards the city, their coordination and complementarity in addressing the ANE views, their conceptual direction, as well as their theoretical and practical consequences.

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