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From Gods to God : How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends /

The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary traditions before the Bible reached the final form that...

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Autor principal: Zakovitch, Yair
Otros Autores: Zakovitch, Valerie, Shinʼan, Avigdor
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Translator's Note; Introduction: When God Fought the Sea Dragons; Part 1. The World of Myth; 1. Eden's Winged Serpent; 2. When Gods Seduced Women; 3. Moses or God? Who Split the Sea of Reeds?; 4. What Is Manna?; 5. The Hero Who Stopped the Sun; Part 2. Cult and Sacred Geography; 6. The Wandering Gate of Heaven; 7. Seeing and Weeping: Managing the Story of a Divine Defeat; 8. Where Were Rachel and Jacob Buried?; 9. Where in the Wilderness Did Israel Receive the Torah?; 10. Some More Reasons for Eating Matzah. 
505 0 |a 11. Was Worshiping the Golden Calf a Sin?12. Where Was the Law Given? In the Wilderness or in the Land of Israel?; 13. When and How Was the City of Dan Sanctifi ed?; Part 3. Biblical Heroes and Th eir Biographies; 14. What Did Ham Do to His Father?; 15. Out of the Fire: Recovering the Story ofAbraham's Origins; 16. Th e Reinterpretation of a Name: Jacob's In Utero Activities; 17. Were the Israelites Never in Egypt? A Peculiar Tradition about Ephraim; 18. Moses's Most Miraculous Birth; 19. Moses's African Romance; 20. Moses's Necessary Death. 
505 0 |a 21. Son of God? Th e Suspicious Story of Samson's Birth22. A Cinderella Tale: Clues to David's Lost Birth Story; 23. Finding the Real Killer of Goliath; 24. How a Savior Became a Villain: Jeroboam and the Exodus; Part 4. Relations between Men and Women; 25. Sister or Not: Sarah's Adventures with Pharaoh; 26. Th e Story of Rebekah and the Servant on theRoad from Haran; 27. Reuben, Bilhah, and a Silent Jacob; 28. Seduction before Murder: Th e Case of Jael; 29. No Innocent Death: David, Abigail, and Nabal; 30. Not Just Riddles; In Closing; Glossary of Extra-Biblical Sources; Index. 
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