From Gods to God : how the Bible debunked, suppressed, or changed ancient myths & legends /
The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary traditions before the Bible reached the final form that...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Lincoln :
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| Summary: | The ancient Israelites believed things that the writers of the Bible wanted them to forget: myths and legends from a pre-biblical world that the new monotheist order needed to bury, hide, or reinterpret. Ancient Israel was rich in such literary traditions before the Bible reached the final form that we have today. These traditions were not lost but continued, passed down through the ages. Many managed to reach us in post-biblical sources: rabbinic literature, Jewish Hellenistic writings, the writings of the Dead Sea sect, the Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and other ancient translations of the Bible, and even outside the ancient Jewish world in Christian and Islamic texts. The Bible itself sometimes alludes to these traditions, often in surprising contexts. This volume presents thirty such traditions. It voyages behind the veil of the written Bible to reconstruct what was told and retold among the ancient Israelites, even if it is "not what the Bible tells us." |
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| Item Description: | "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book"--Title page verso. Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780827609082 0827609086 9781283687737 1283687739 9780827611443 0827611447 |
