Hebrew Myths

The Book of Genesis

Szerző: Raphael Patai, Robert Graves

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Carcanet Press Ltd

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For thirty years Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, one raised a strict Protestant, the other a strict...

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Raphael Patai, Robert Graves

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2005

oldal

440

EAN

9781857546613

ISBN

185754661X

Enbook ID

05117743

Kiadó

Carcanet Press Ltd

Súly

522

Méretek

218 x 145 x 30

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For thirty years Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, one raised a strict Protestant, the other a strict Jew, were close friends and collaborators. That collaboration culminating in the book "Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis"; 'we never disagreed on any question of fact or historical assessment'. They collected traditional Hebrew myths that amplify (and sometimes subtly change) stories found in the "Book of Genesis". They go beyond the Christian biblical and Judaic versions of Hebrew myth, and use midrashim, folk-tales, apocryphal texts and other sources to nuance, extend and complete the stories. 'Myths are dramatic stories that form a sacred charter either authorising the continuance of ancient institutions, customs, rites and beliefs in the area where they are current, or approving alterations,' says the introduction. Those are the very myths that lie at the base of all the great Semitic monotheistic religions, the myths from which so many of our own structures and concerns spring. Part of the mission of this book is to see through from the authorised Bible texts to the suppressed and censored pre-Biblical accounts. Patai and Graves approach their subject with firm scholarship and informed inference, and as we read we become aware of shadows, colours, intensities, coming back into stories we thought we knew. Like Graves's celebrated "The Greek Myths", to which "Hebrew Myths" serves as a companion volume, this is an invaluable source book and reference tool, but it is also a fascinating text to read sequentially. From it emerges a rich sense of a culture in the making, a culture consisting of oral and literary traditions, where the spiritual is deeply rooted in landscape and history.

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