Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis Graves Robert
Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis Graves Robert A scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek MythsAn exhaustive…
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Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis Graves Robert
A scholarly approach to sixty-one stories from the book of Genesis, following in the lucid format of Graves' canonical The Greek MythsAn exhaustive study of sixty-one stories from the Old Testament and the Torah, as well as pre-biblical texts censored for centuries, that nuance, extend, and complete the book of Genesis. Myths are reconceived as dramatic stories that form a sacred charter either authorizing the continuance or the alteration of religious beliefs. Graves and Patai, renowned scholars of Greco-Roman and Hebrew mythology, transcend the Christian biblical and Judaic versions of these narratives, in order to redefine myth.
Thus, the mythological component underlying the Authorized biblical texts are interpreted against the grain to expose folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah exclude.