The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response?S. Daniel Breslauer 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
The Mythology of Judaism | 11 |
Poetry Allegory and Myth in Saul Tschernichowsky | 27 |
Can the Teaching of Jewish History be Anything but the Teaching of Myth? | 43 |
Modern Uses of Myth in Judaism | 71 |
Western Jewry and Nationalized Tourism in Palestine 19221933 | 73 |
The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought | 97 |
Judeophobia Myth and Critique | 123 |
The Poetics of Myth in Genesis | 157 |
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