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200 10$aFrom Gods to God $ehow the Bible debunked, suppressed, or changed ancient myths & legends /$fAvigdor Shinan & Yair Zakovitch ; translated by Valerie Zakovitch
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aPhiladelphia $cJewish Publication Society$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (316 p.)
300   $a"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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
327   $a11. 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 Sanctified?; Part 3. Biblical Heroes and Their Biographies; 14. What Did Ham Do to His Father?; 15. Out of the Fire: Recovering the Story of Abraham's Origins; 16. The 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
327   $a21. Son of God? The Suspicious Story of Samson's Birth 22. 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. The Story of Rebekah and the Servant on the Road from Haran; 27. Reuben, Bilhah, and a Silent Jacob; 28. Seduction before Murder: The Case of Jael; 29. No Innocent Death: David, Abigail, and Nabal; 30. Not Just Riddles; In Closing; Glossary of Extra-Biblical Sources; Index
330   $aThe 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 we have today. These traditions were not lost but continued, passed down through the ages. Many managed to reach us in post-biblical sources: rabbinic literature, Jewish Hellenistic writings, the writings of the Dead Sea sect, the Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and other ancient
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