| Physical description |
1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Judaica |
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SUNY series in Judaica.
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| Notes |
Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Other author |
Breslauer, S. Daniel.
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| Subject |
Judaism -- Congresses.
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Myth in literature -- Congresses.
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Jews -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
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Aggada -- Congresses.
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Conference papers and proceedings |
| ISBN |
058504354X (electronic bk.) |
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9780585043548 (electronic bk.) |
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9780791436011 (electronic bk.) |
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0791436012 (electronic bk.) |
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9780791436028 (electronic bk.) |
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0791436020 (electronic bk.) |
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0791497445 (electronic bk.) |
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9780791497449 (electronic bk.) |
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