Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. By Michael Fishbane. Pp. xiv + 459 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. isbn 0 19 826733 9. £70
Are the myths about primeval sea monsters, divine warriors, and weather gods, as preserved in the Hebrew Bible, unalterably polytheistic in character and therefore incompatible with Jewish monotheism? Is Jewish religious thought therefore required to view them figuratively or as reflections of lingu...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 624-628 |
| Review of: | Biblical myth and rabbinic mythmaking (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2004) (Reif, Stefan C.)
Biblical myth and rabbinic mythmaking (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2003) (Reif, Stefan C.) |
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| Summary: | Are the myths about primeval sea monsters, divine warriors, and weather gods, as preserved in the Hebrew Bible, unalterably polytheistic in character and therefore incompatible with Jewish monotheism? Is Jewish religious thought therefore required to view them figuratively or as reflections of linguistic inadequacy? May it justifiably be maintained that their equivalents in rabbinic literature are ‘merely faded fragments of non-Jewish antiquity and devoid of any real mythic valence’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli160 |