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Title Myth and scripture : contemporary perspectives on religion, language, and imagination / edited by Dexter E. Callender, Jr.

Publication Info. Atlanta : SBL Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 311 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Society of Biblical Literature resources for biblical study ; Number 78
Resources for biblical study ; no. 78.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Scholarship between myth and scripture / Dexter E. Callender Jr. and William Scott Green -- Part 1. Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. "Myth" in the Old Testament / J.W. Rogerson -- Myth and scripture : dissonance and convergence / Dexter E. Callender Jr. -- Covenant and contingence : the historical encounter between God and Israel / Robert S. Kawashima -- Is Genesis 1 a creation muyth? : yes and no / Mark S. Smith -- Moses' death / Susan Ackerman -- Myth and social realia in ancient Israel : early Hebrew poems as folkloric assemblage / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Myth and history in Ezekiel's oracle concerning Tyre (Ezekiel 26-28) / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Myth and history in Daniel 8 : the apocalyptic negotiation of power / Amy C. Merrill Willis -- Part 2. Myth in the New Testament and the Greco-Roman world. Recast, reclaim, reject : myth and validity / Steven J. Kraftchick -- "God was in Christ" : 2 Corinthians 5:19 and mythic language / Luke Timothy Johnson -- Ancient Greek demythologizing / James E. Miller -- Myth, allegory, and the Derveni papyrus / John T. Fitzgerald -- Part 3. Myth theorizing and the Bible : a conversation. The life of King Saul as myth / Robert A. Segal -- Response to Robert A. Segal, "The life of King Saul as myth" / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Theory of myth and the minimal Saul / Ivan Strenski -- The indispensability of theories of myth for biblical studies : a response to Robert Segal / David L. Miller -- Replies to Ivan Strenski, Adela Yarbro Collins, and David Miller / Robert A. Segal.
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Subject Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bible. Old Testament.
Bibel.
Myth in the Bible.
Myth in the Bible.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Callender, Dexter E., 1962- editor.
Callender, Dexter E., 1962- Myth and Scripture : dissonance and convergence.
Other Form: Print version: Myth and scripture. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature Press, [2014] 9781589839618 (DLC) 2014002897 (OCoLC)869367733
ISBN 9781589839625 (electronic book)
1589839625 (electronic book)
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