03653nam 2200709Ia 450 991095417170332120200520144314.0978079149744907914974459780585043548058504354X(CKB)111004366810208(OCoLC)42854791(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588768(SSID)ssj0000243353(PQKBManifestationID)11218911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243353(PQKBWorkID)10321649(PQKB)10465979(MiAaPQ)EBC3408219(MdBmJHUP)muse14075(Au-PeEL)EBL3408219(CaPaEBR)ebr10588768(OCoLC)923412365(Perlego)2842744(DE-B1597)736335(DE-B1597)9780791497449(EXLCZ)9911100436681020819970224d1997 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe seductiveness of Jewish myth challenge or response? /edited by S. Daniel BreslauerAlbany State University of New York Pressc19971 online resource (vi, 317 pages)SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and ReligionSUNY series in JudaicaRevised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference."9780791436011 0791436012 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Judaism -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.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.JudaismCongressesMyth in literatureCongressesJewsIntellectual lifeCongressesAggadaCongressesJudaismMyth in literatureJewsIntellectual lifeAggada296Breslauer S. Daniel1810098MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954171703321The seductiveness of Jewish myth4361248UNINA