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UNINA9910954171703321 |
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Titolo |
The seductiveness of Jewish myth : challenge or response? / / edited by S. Daniel Breslauer |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1997 |
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ISBN |
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9780791497449 |
0791497445 |
9780585043548 |
058504354X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion |
SUNY series in Judaica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Judaism |
Myth in literature |
Jews - Intellectual life |
Aggada |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Content -- Part One: What is Jewish Myth? -- The Mythology of Judaism -- Poetry, Allegory, and Myth in Saul Tschernichowsky -- Can the Teaching of Jewish History be Anything but the Teaching of Myth? -- Part Two: Modern Uses of Myth in Judaism -- The Invention of a Secular Ritual: Western Jewry and Nationalized Tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933 -- A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought -- Judeophobia, Myth, and Critique -- Part Three: Case Histories on Myth in Judaism -- The Poetics of Myth in Genesis -- Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Narrative in Philo -- The Myth of Jesus in Rabbinic Literature -- Melchizedek: King, Priest, and God -- The Face of Jacob in the Moon: Mystical Transformations of an Aggadic Myth -- Sabbatai Zevi, Metatron, and Mehmed: Myth and History in Seventeenth-Century |
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Judaism -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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