Myth and scripture: contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Scholarship between Myth and Scripture -- Part 1: Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East -- "Myth" in the Old Testament -- Myth and Scripture: Dissonance and Convergence -- Covenant and Contingence: The Hist...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Atlanta
SBL Press
2014
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| In: |
Resources for biblical study (number 78)
Year: 2014 |
| Series/Journal: | Resources for biblical study
number 78 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Old Testament
/ New Testament
/ Myth
B Ancient Orient / Old Testament / Myth B New Testament / Myth B Classical antiquity / Myth |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Myth in the Bible B Electronic books |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Aggregator) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Scholarship between Myth and Scripture -- Part 1: Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East -- "Myth" in the Old Testament -- Myth and Scripture: Dissonance and Convergence -- Covenant and Contingence: The Historical Encounter between God and Israel -- Is Genesis 1 a Creation Myth? Yes and No -- Moses' Death -- Myth and Social Realia in Ancient Israel: Early Hebrew Poems as Folkloric Assemblage -- Myth and History in Ezekiel's Oracle concerning Tyre (Ezekiel 26-28) -- Myth and History in Daniel 8: The Apocalyptic Negotiation of Power -- Part 2: Myth in the New Testament and the Greco-Roman World -- Recast, Reclaim, Reject: Myth and Validity -- "God Was in Christ": 2 Corinthians 5:19 and Mythic Language -- Ancient Greek Demythologizing -- Myth, Allegory, and the Derveni Papyrus -- Part 3: Myth Theorizing and the Bible: A Conversation -- The Life of King Saul as Myth -- Response to Robert A. Segal, "The Life of King Saul as Myth" -- Theory of Myth and the Minimal Saul -- The Indispensability of Theories of Myth for Biblical Studies: A Response to Robert Segal -- Replies to Ivan Strenski, Adela Yarbro Collins, and David Miller -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Sources -- Index of Authors. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 1589839617 |