The seductiveness of Jewish myth: challenge or response?
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| Summary: | Annotation The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth offers a panorama of diverse definitions of myth, understandings of Judaism, and competing evaluations of the "mythic" element in religion. The contributors focus on the problem of defining myth as a category in religious studies, examine modern religion and the role of myth in a "secularized" world, and look at specific cases of Jewish myth from biblical through modern times pt. 1. What is Jewish myth?: The mythology of Judaism / Howard Schwartz. Poetry, allegory, and myth in Saul Tchernichowsky / S. Daniel Breslauer. Can the teaching of Jewish history be anything but the teaching of myth? / Joel Gereboff -- pt. 2. Modern uses of myth in Judaism: The invention of a secular ritual: Western Jewry and nationalized tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933 / Michael Berkowitz. A rustling in the woods: the turn to myth in Weimar Jewish thought / Steven M. Wasserstrom. Judeophobia, myth, and critique / David Norman Smith -- pt. 3. Case histories on myth in Judaism: The poetics of myth in Genesis / Ronald S. Hendel. Strange bedfellows: politics and narrative in Philo / Deborah Sills. The myth of Jesus in rabbinic literature / Richard A. Freund. Melchizedek: king, priest, and god / James R. Davila. The face of Jacob in the moon: mystical transformations of an aggadic myth / Elliot R. Wolfson. Sabbatai Zevi, Metatron, and Mehmed: myth and history in seventeenth-century Judaism / David J. Halperin. |
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| Item Description: | Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (vi, 317 p.) |
| ISBN: | 058504354X |