Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
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Princeton, N. J
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Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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William F. McCants
CONTENTS NOTE
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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