The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response? [SUNY Series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion]

Breslauer, S. Daniel, Ed.

ISBN 10: 0791436020 / ISBN 13: 9780791436028

Editore: SUNY Press, 1997

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• Titolo: The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response? [SUNY Series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion]
• Editore: SUNY Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0791436020
• ISBN 13: 9780791436028
• Rilegatura: Brossura

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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. Contributors to this volume include Michael Berkowitz, S. Daniel Breslauer, James R. Davila, Richard A. Freund, Joel Gereboff, David Halperin, Ron Hendel, Howard Schwartz, Deborah Sills, David Norman Smith, Steven M. Wasserstrom, and Elliot Wolfson.

Informazioni sull?autore

S. Daniel Breslauer is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He has written many books including most recently Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Post-Modern Age.