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" The seductiveness of Jewish myth : "
edited by S. Daniel Breslauer.
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BL
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702656
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b524845
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The seductiveness of Jewish myth : : challenge or response? /\ edited by S. Daniel Breslauer.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [1997]
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, ©1997
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SUNY series in Judaica
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1 online resource (vi, 317 pages).
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058504354X (electronic bk.)
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: 9780585043548 (electronic bk.)
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0791436012
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0791436020
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Revised versions of papers delivered on March 6 and 7, 1994 during "Myth in the Biblical and Jewish Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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pt. 1. What is Jewish myth?: The mythology of Judaism / Howard Schwartz. Poetry, allegory, and myth in Saul Tchernichowsky / S. Daniel Breslauer. Can the teaching of Jewish history be anything but the teaching of myth? / Joel Gereboff -- pt. 2. Modern uses of myth in Judaism: The invention of a secular ritual: Western Jewry and nationalized tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933 / Michael Berkowitz. A rustling in the woods: the turn to myth in Weimar Jewish thought / Steven M. Wasserstrom. Judeophobia, myth, and critique / David Norman Smith -- pt. 3. Case histories on myth in Judaism: The poetics of myth in Genesis / Ronald S. Hendel. Strange bedfellows: politics and narrative in Philo / Deborah Sills. The myth of Jesus in rabbinic literature / Richard A. Freund. Melchizedek: king, priest, and god / James R. Davila. The face of Jacob in the moon: mystical transformations of an aggadic myth / Elliot R. Wolfson. Sabbatai Zevi, Metatron, and Mehmed: myth and history in seventeenth-century Judaism / David J. Halperin
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Aggada, Congresses.
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Jews-- Intellectual life, Congresses.
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Judaism, Congresses.
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Myth in literature, Congresses.
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296
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BM30.S43 1997eb
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Breslauer, S. Daniel.
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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