The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth - Challenge or Response?

A collection of essays focusing on myth in Judaism from biblical to modern times, this book offers a sense of the great diversity of the Jewish religion.
The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth offers a panorama of diverse definitions of myth, understandings of Judaism, and competing evaluations of the "mythic" element in religion.
The contributors focus on the problem of defining myth as a category in religious studies, examine modern religion and the role of myth in a "secularized" world, and look at specific cases of Jewish myth from biblical through modern times.

About the author

S. Daniel Breslauer is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He has written many books including most recently Mordecai Kaplan's Thought in a Post-Modern Age.

Product details

• Assisted by: S Daniel Breslauer (Editor), S. Daniel Breslauer (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.1997
• EAN: 9780791436011
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3601-1
• No. of pages: 317
• Weight: 599 g
• Series: Suny Series in Judaica; Suny Series in Judaica; Suny Judaica: Hermeneutics, My
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism