FOUNDING GODS, INVENTING NATIONS

This innovative book tackles the fascinating subject of how and by whom culture was invented, and discusses this phenomenon by looki ng at the ancient, Greco-Roman, pre-Islamic Arabian, and Muslim worlds. Examining various texts that have rarely been analyzed in th e same place, the book will appeal to a diversity of readers and fields.--Robert Hoyland, University of OxfordMcCants explores cultu re myths over a long period--from Sumerian literature of the third millennium BCE to Arabic works of the ninth century CE--and over a wide bu...[Read more]