Myth and Scripture : Contemporary Perspectives on Religion, Language, and Imagination.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Scholarship between Myth and Scripture -- Part 1: Myth in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East -- "Myth" in the Old Testament -- Myth and Scripture: Dissonance and Convergence -- Covenant and Contingence: The Historical Encounter between God and Israel -- Is Genesis 1 a Creation Myth? Yes and No -- Moses' Death -- Myth and Social Realia in Ancient Israel: Early Hebrew Poems as Folkloric Assemblage -- Myth and History in Ezekiel's Oracle concerning Tyre (Ezekiel 26-28) -- Myth and History in Daniel 8: The Apocalyptic Negotiation of Power -- Part 2: Myth in the New Testament and the Greco-Roman World -- Recast, Reclaim, Reject: Myth and Validity -- "God Was in Christ": 2 Corinthians 5:19 and Mythic Language -- Ancient Greek Demythologizing -- Myth, Allegory, and the Derveni Papyrus -- Part 3: Myth Theorizing and the Bible: A Conversation -- The Life of King Saul as Myth -- Response to Robert A. Segal, "The Life of King Saul as Myth" -- Theory of Myth and the Minimal Saul -- The Indispensability of Theories of Myth for Biblical Studies: A Response to Robert Segal -- Replies to Ivan Strenski, Adela Yarbro Collins, and David Miller -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Sources -- Index of Authors.

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