Download or read book Divination Magic and Healing written by Ronald H. Isaacs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Download or read book Hebrew Myths written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.

Download or read book Myth and Scripture written by Dexter E. Callender, Jr. and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body An interdisciplinary collection for scholars and students interested in the connections between myth and scripture In this collection scholars suggest that using “myth” creates a framework within which to set biblical writings in both cultural and literary comparative contexts. Reading biblical accounts alongside the religious narratives of other ancient civilizations reveals what is commonplace and shared among them. The fruit of such work widens and enriches our understanding of the nature and character of biblical texts, and the results provide fresh evidence for how biblical writings became “scripture.” Features: Essays that explore how myth sheds light on the emergence of scripture Examples drawn from the Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Greco-Roman world Articles by experts from a range of disciplines

Download or read book Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions written by T. W. Doane and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He who knows only one religion knows none."—Prof. Max Muller. "The same thing which is now called Christian Religion existed among the Ancients. They have begun to call Christian the true religion which existed before."—St. Augustine. "Our love for what is old, our reverence for what our fathers used, makes us keep still in the church, and on the very altar cloths, symbols which would excite the smile of an Oriental, and lead him to wonder why we send missionaries to his land, while cherishing his faith in ours."—James Bonwick.

Download or read book Myth in the New Testament written by Ian Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Science of the Bible written by Milton Woolley and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Commentaries on Hebrew and Christian Mythology written by Parish B. Ladd and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 1896 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ladd's commentaries on the mythological aspects of Judaism and Christianity are illuminated by his depth of scriptural knowledge and thorough researches. This eclectic work examines extant writings of a variety of ancient civilizations to shed light upon the myths and stories of the Hebrews. Ladd looks into the ancient Chaldeans, the Egyptians, the Greeks and even the Hindus of the East to arrive at his conclusions. The author's desire is to uncover how Judaism and later on Christianity began, in the context of the religious and cultural events which preceded their establishment. Spending years amid volumes of disparate and obscure sources, Ladd sought to condense and combine their insights into this single book, that curious readers may discover such history with relative ease. Individual monuments and stone tablets, plus surviving examples of writing upon papyrus, are among the original sources Ladd consults. The Bible, from the life of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt onwards, is examined at length. The author disagreed with the conventional explanations, whether regarding the life of certain figures, or the authorship and origins of various texts. Thus, much of this work seeks to validate and support the author's assertions to the farthest extent possible.

Download or read book Myth and History in the Bible written by Giovanni Garbini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Testament, and biblical scholarship itself, distinguishes between mythical and historical. This book argues that only historical thing in the Bible is the Bible itself, a superb product of Jewish thought. What is narrated in the Bible is only myth. But this myth about Israel's past was still built with fragments of history, or rather with written traditions that were different from those expressed in the actual text, and obviously more ancient. These essays follow in the spirit of his controversial History and Ideology in Ancient Israel, which combine detailed philological reseaerch, a wide knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature and Biblical Archaeology--and a radical way of understanding what the biblical text is really telling us. This is an erudite and thought-provoking book, which should not be ignored by anyone who finds the origin of the Bible a fascinating and still largely unknown phenomenon.

Download or read book The Legends of the Jews written by Louis Ginzberg and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Before Available in Paperback, Louis Ginzberg's landmark seven-volume The Legends of the Jews assembles the many elaborations and embellishments of Biblical stories that flourished in the centuries following the Bible's own creation. Ginzberg devoted most of his life to gathering these legends from their original sources - written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic - and reproducing them completely, accurately, and vividly. He presents them in their traditional Biblical sequence and reconciles the sometimes contradictory versions of the same stories found in different sources. In addition to four volumes of the legends themselves, The Legends of the Jews includes two indispensable volumes of notes, which provide the sources for every legend, as well as a comprehensive index to the people, places, and motifs found in the legends and their sources.

Download or read book 101 Myths of the Bible written by Gary Greenberg and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his startling book, Gary Greenberg exposes the reality behind the greatest story ever told. Learn about the Egyptian myths and ancient folklore that survive in one of history's most sacred texts, and discover how: King David's bodyguard, not David, killed Goliath Noah's Ark did not land on Mount Ararat Samson did not pull down a Philistine temple There are at least two versions of the Ten Commandments The walls of Jericho were destroyed 300 years before Joshua arrived there Sodom and Gomorrah were mythical cities that never existed The story of Esther had nothing to do with the Jews of Persia And much, much more 101 Myths of the Bible provides a new dimension of biblical studies for believers, historians and anyone who has ever wondered about the facts behind the legends. By looking deeper into history, Greenberg shows that the true story makes the Bible more interesting than ever imagined!

Download or read book The Mishle Shu alim fox Fables of Rabbi Berechiah Ha Nakdan written by Haim Schwarzbaum and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions written by Thomas William Doane and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bible among the Myths written by John N. Oswalt and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years ago, most biblical scholars maintained that Israel’s religion was unique—that it stood in marked contrast to the faiths of its ancient Near Eastern neighbors. Nowadays, it is widely argued that Israel’s religion mirrors that of other West Semitic societies. What accounts for this radical change, and what are its implications for our understanding of the Old Testament? Dr. John N. Oswalt says the root of this new attitude lies in Western society’s hostility to the idea of revelation, which presupposes a reality that transcends the world of the senses, asserting the existence of a realm humans cannot control. While not advocating a “the Bible says it, and I believe it, and that settles it” point of view, Oswalt asserts convincingly that while other ancient literatures all see reality in essentially the same terms, the Bible differs radically on all the main points. The Bible Among the Myths supplies a necessary corrective to those who reject the Old Testament’s testimony about a transcendent God who breaks into time and space and reveals himself in and through human activity.

Download or read book Myths and Realities written by John L. McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hebrew Myths written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hebrew Mythology written by Milton Woolley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hebrew Mythology Human nature in every age and country is very much the same; though modified to some extent by the circumstances of time, place and degree of civilization. Hence the general resemblance of all the cosmogonies or creations found in the various mythologies of the world - the Hebrew not excepted. Impressed by these sentiments, I became strongly convinced that all were framed, in all their details, on the same general plan. Accordingly, nearly seven years ago, when turned of my sixtieth year, I began the study of the Hebrew language in order to discover, if possible, the lost key, by whose aid I might recover the rich treasure so long locked up from public view. My endeavor was, as I believe, crowned with a success as complete as one could desire - a success amounting in fact to actual demonstration, as many, if not most of my readers will come to see and acknowledge. The labor of the study and composition of my work, though difficult, long and tedious, was one of love - of love, first, because of the intellectual enjoyment experienced in this most varied and interesting study of man's nature and motives - and second, because of the prospective good which may accrue, as the result of my investigations, to my fellow-citizens throughout the world. That the foundation of my system is stable, and able to resist any attack of criticism, I do not entertain a doubt, as its truth is based on my philological analysis of the word Elohim, and also on any amount of corroborative evidence. On this score, I may defy the assaults of criticism. Among the details of my expose, there may be, and doubtless are, some errors, or what may be deemed such. These may furnish food for the small critic. My foundation, then, being established, its superstructure, if at all damaged, may be readily repaired. I trust, however, that my exposition will prove in the main correct. The person who shall attempt its overthrow will, of course, first undertake to do away with my analysis of the word Elohim, and so upset the rules of the Hebrew language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Jewish Folklore written by Eli Yassif and published by New York : Garland. This book was released on 1986 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: