02868nam 2200601Ia 450 991082176850332120230617010446.01-281-80279-497866118027900-567-60886-7(CKB)1000000000542295(EBL)436473(OCoLC)276784358(SSID)ssj0000207623(PQKBManifestationID)12056931(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207623(PQKBWorkID)10238559(PQKB)10381813(MiAaPQ)EBC436473(Au-PeEL)EBL436473(CaPaEBR)ebr10250588(CaONFJC)MIL180279(OCoLC)893334169(EXLCZ)99100000000054229520030407d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMyth and history in the Bible[electronic resource] /Giovanni Garbini ; translated by Chiara PeriLondon ;New York Sheffield Academic Pressc20031 online resource (161 p.)Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;362Description based upon print version of record.0-567-01839-3 0-8264-6260-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-143) and indexes.Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE MYTHS OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAEL; Chapter 2 CAIN'S IMPUNITY; Chapter 3 ABRAHAM AND DAMASCUS; Chapter 4 REUBEN'S INCEST AND THE CONTESTED PRIMOGENITURE; Chapter 5 MOSES AND THE LAW; Chapter 6 DAVIDIC TRADITIONS; Chapter 7 THE CALF OF BETHEL; Chapter 8 EZRA'S BIRTH; Chapter 9 BIRTH AND DEATH OF A MESSIAH; Chapter 10 THE END OF MYTH; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of AuthorsThe Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of his controversial History and Ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological reseaerch, aJournal for the study of the Old Testament.Supplement series ;362.Myth in the BibleMyth in the Bible.220.67221.95Garbini Giovanni154499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821768503321Myth and history in the Bible3932026UNINA