RT Review
T1 Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking. By Michael Fishbane. Pp. xiv + 459 . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. isbn 0 19 826733 9. £70
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 56
IS 2
SP 624
OP 628
A1 Reif, Stefan C.
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2005
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783716665
AB 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.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fli160