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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778852503321

Titolo

The seductiveness of Jewish myth : challenge or response? / / editor, S. Daniel Breslauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-7914-9744-5

0-585-04354-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (vi, 317 pages)

Collana

SUNY series in Judaica

Altri autori (Persone)

BreslauerS. Daniel

Disciplina

296

Soggetti

Judaism

Myth in literature

Jews - Intellectual life

Aggada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.