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Comparative narratives and law
Comparative studies of religious narratives, creation, laws and wisdom in ancient texts and later traditions, distinguishing resemblance and shared traditions from demonstrated or debated transmission.
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Aulis
Ancient place on the Boeotian coast near the Euripus Strait in Greece; setting of Iphigenia's Greek story and site of a fifth-century BCE Artemis temple.
Artemis sanctuary remains at Aulis, Greece; George E. Koronaios, 2021. Evidence for a cult site, not for Iphigenia's episode
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Tauris
Ancient Greek name for Taurian territory on the Black Sea, associated with today's Crimean peninsula; the setting of Euripides' Iphigenia play.
Rocky Black Sea coast in the Crimean peninsula, modern photograph. Regional context for Tauris, not the site of Iphigenia's temple in the play
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Eden: The Setting of Genesis’s Garden
The place in which the garden of Genesis 2–3 is planted; the story describes rivers, trees and a human test, while its archaeological location and name’s derivation remain unsettled.
Modern conceptual illustration combining a Dilmun-like quay, fresh water and a garden to frame the comparison; neither an archaeological reconstruction nor a location of Eden. © IL Archive, CC0
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Dilmun: Ancient Gulf Land and Literary Setting
An ancient Gulf trading region linked archaeologically to Bahrain and also a Sumerian literary setting whose mythical scenes are not all historical descriptions.
Modern conceptual illustration combining a Dilmun-like quay, fresh water and a garden to frame the comparison; neither an archaeological reconstruction nor a location of Eden. © IL Archive, CC0
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