| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The seductiveness of Jewish myth/ edited by S. Daniel Breslauer. |
| Reminder of title: |
challenge or response? / |
| other author: |
Breslauer, S. Daniel. |
| Published: |
Albany :State University of New York Press, : c1997., |
| Description: |
vi, 317 p. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference." |
| Series: |
SUNY series in Judaica |
| [NT 15003449]: |
pt. 1. What is Jewish myth?: The mythology of Judaism / Howard Schwartz. Poetry, allegory, and myth in Saul Tchernichowsky / S. Daniel Breslauer. Can the teaching of Jewish history be anything but the teaching of myth?/ Joel Gereboff -- pt. 2. Modern uses of myth in Judaism: The invention of a secular ritual: Western Jewry and nationalized tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933 / Michael Berkowitz. A rustling in the woods: the turn to myth in Weimar Jewish thought/ Steven M. Wasserstrom. Judeophobia, myth, and critique / David Norman Smith -- pt. 3. Case histories on myth in Judaism: The poetics of myth in Genesis / Ronald S. Hendel. Strange bedfellows: politics and narrative in Philo/ Deborah Sills. The myth of Jesus in rabbinic literature / Richard A. Freund. Melchizedek: king, priest, and god / James R. Davila. The face of Jacob in the moon: mystical transformations of an aggadic myth/ Elliot R. Wolfson. Sabbatai Zevi, Metatron, and Mehmed: myth and history in seventeenth-century Judaism / David J. Halperin. |
| Subject: |
Aggada - Congresses. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=5752An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
058504354X (electronic bk.) |