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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breslauer, S. Daniel.

Series:

SUNY series in Judaica

SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Congresses.

Judaism.

Myth in literature--Congresses.

Myth in literature.

Jews--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Jews.

Aggada--Congresses.

Aggada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 317 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791497449

0791497445

9780585043548

058504354X

OCLC:

42854791