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No citations needed: This is exactly what the professor told me: “For the reading response, you do not need to include footnotes or a bibliography. If you wish to include a quote (which is not necessary to complete this assignment), you can do an in-text citation. (Chicago Style) Also, if you are going to include footnotes and bibliography, be consistent”.

(There will be bunches of reading pdf but don’t hesitate since I just need one reading pdf as a main focus and a secondary reading pdf to back up the first one.)

This is the reading response guidelines from the professor: “While the question will be about one reading or a concept discussed, bring another assigned reading from the week into your response, and explain how it relates to the question. While the question will differ from week to week, generally the questions will focus on the rhetorical argument of the reading, the function of a primary text, or how the author is explicitly or implicitly understanding the concept of religion”.

Write and submit a 250 word response to the question posed below. Bring another assigned reading from the week into your response, and explain how it relates to the question.

Some of the narratives we are looking at this week come from contexts outside of that we think of when we think of creation stories, such as Against Toothache, which comes from a Mesopotamian magical/medical context, and the Coffin Texts, which were written on coffins beginning after the Old Kingdom in Egypt. Why might acts of creation be invoked in contexts of healing or in the burial of the dead? How might this kind of context affect how these creation narratives were read or understood in the ancient past?