LEADER 03653nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910954171703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780791497449 010 $a0791497445 010 $a9780585043548 010 $a058504354X 035 $a(CKB)111004366810208 035 $a(OCoLC)42854791 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588768 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243353 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243353 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10321649 035 $a(PQKB)10465979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408219 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14075 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588768 035 $a(OCoLC)923412365 035 $a(Perlego)2842744 035 $a(DE-B1597)736335 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791497449 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366810208 100 $a19970224d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe seductiveness of Jewish myth $echallenge or response? /$fedited by S. Daniel Breslauer 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) 225 0 $aSUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion 225 0$aSUNY series in Judaica 300 $aRevised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference." 311 0 $a9780791436011 311 0 $a0791436012 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aJudaism$vCongresses 606 $aMyth in literature$vCongresses 606 $aJews$xIntellectual life$vCongresses 606 $aAggada$vCongresses 615 0$aJudaism 615 0$aMyth in literature 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAggada 676 $a296 701 $aBreslauer$b S. Daniel$01810098 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954171703321 996 $aThe seductiveness of Jewish myth$94361248 997 $aUNINA