The seductiveness of Jewish myth : challenge or response? / / edited by S. Daniel Breslauer

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 317 pages)
• Disciplina: 296
• Soggetto topico: Judaism; Myth in literature; Jews - Intellectual life; Aggada
• Altri autori: BreslauerS. Daniel
• Note generali: Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The seductiveness of Jewish myth
• ISBN: 9780791497449; 0791497445; 9780585043548; 058504354X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910954171703321
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