Biblical myth and rabbinic mythmaking

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Biblical myth and rabbinic mythmaking

Michael Fishbane

Oxford University Press, 2005, c2003

  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Biblical myth & rabbinic mythmaking

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Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-417) and indexes

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A comprehensive and systematic exploration of myth in the Hebrew Bible. In addition, Michael Fishbane examines the ongoing role of Scripture in the expansion and transformation of myth in ancient Jewish sources (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar). The role of myth and monotheism is taken up, and the texts of myth are subjected to close analytical treatment, dealing with matters of form, theme, and theology. In particular, the creative role of exegesis, and its capacity to generate new myths and to justify older or pre-existent ones, is explored. Aspects of continuity and discontinuity with biblical and ancient Near Eastern sources are examined, and the explosive innovations of myth in the various literary phases are considered. In exploring three major phases of Jewish culture, Michael Fishbane offers a new appreciation for the reality of myth and its varieties. Many new conceptual and analytical categories are presented, as well as numerous close readings of the texts at hand.

目次

  • I. BIBLICAL MYTH
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Combat Myths and Divine Actions: Prayers and Prophecies of Divine Might
  • 3. Personalization and Historicization of the Combat Motif: In Prayer and Prophecy
  • 4. Conclusions and Other Considerations
  • II. RABBINIC MYTH AND MYTHMAKING
  • 5. Introduction
  • 6. God and the Primordial Waters
  • 7. Myths of Participation and Pathos
  • 8. Myths of Divinity
  • 9. Conclusions and Other Considerations
  • III. JEWISH MYTH AND MYTHMAKING IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  • 10. Introduction
  • 11. The Primordial Serpent and the Secrets of Creation
  • 12. Divine Sorrow and the Rupture of Exile
  • 13. Conclusions
  • 14. Final Conclusions

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