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Myth and scripture : contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination /

"The essays gathered here focus attention on the concept of myth and its place in biblical studies through a variety of multi-and interdisciplinary approaches. They approach the methodological issue of how the categories of myth and scripture can be better incorporated into our understanding an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Callender, Dexter E., 1962- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2014]
Colección:Resources for biblical study ; no. 78.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scholarship between myth and scripture / Dexter E. Callender Jr. and William Scott Green
  • Part 1. Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. "Myth" in the Old Testament / J.W. Rogerson
  • Myth and scripture : dissonance and convergence / Dexter E. Callender Jr.
  • Covenant and contingence : the historical encounter between God and Israel / Robert S. Kawashima
  • Is Genesis 1 a creation muyth? : yes and no / Mark S. Smith
  • Moses' death / Susan Ackerman
  • Myth and social realia in ancient Israel : early Hebrew poems as folkloric assemblage / Hugh R. Page Jr.
  • Myth and history in Ezekiel's oracle concerning Tyre (Ezekiel 26-28) / Marvin A. Sweeney
  • Myth and history in Daniel 8 : the apocalyptic negotiation of power / Amy C. Merrill Willis
  • Part 2. Myth in the New Testament and the Greco-Roman world. Recast, reclaim, reject : myth and validity / Steven J. Kraftchick
  • "God was in Christ" : 2 Corinthians 5:19 and mythic language / Luke Timothy Johnson
  • Ancient Greek demythologizing / James E. Miller
  • Myth, allegory, and the Derveni papyrus / John T. Fitzgerald
  • Part 3. Myth theorizing and the Bible : a conversation. The life of King Saul as myth / Robert A. Segal
  • Response to Robert A. Segal, "The life of King Saul as myth" / Adela Yarbro Collins
  • Theory of myth and the minimal Saul / Ivan Strenski
  • The indispensability of theories of myth for biblical studies : a response to Robert Segal / David L. Miller
  • Replies to Ivan Strenski, Adela Yarbro Collins, and David Miller / Robert A. Segal.