Foreword (Markham Geller and Mineke Schipper) -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Chapter One Introduction (Mary Douglas) -- Chapter Two Mesopotamian Creation Stories (W. G. Lambert) -- Chapter Three Creation Stories in Ancient Egypt (Stephen Quirke) -- Chapter Four You Can't Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Ancient Indian Creation Myths (Wendy Doniger) -- Chapter Five Stories of the Beginning: Origin Myths in Africa South of the Sahara (Mineke Schipper) -- Chapter Six Modern Jewish Attitudes to the Concept of Myth (Wout Jac. van Bekkum) -- Chapter Seven Extract from Genesis 1-2 Translation and Commentary, Norton, NY 1996 (Robert Alter) -- Chapter Eight The Bible in the Making: Slavonic Creation Stories (Florentina Badalanova) -- Chapter Nine Arab Creation Stories beyond the Pale (Abdullah al-Udhari) -- Chapter Ten Lurianic Creation Myths (Daphne Freedman) -- Index.