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Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth »

Authors: Robert Segal, Robert Alan Segal
ISBN-13: 9780815322573, ISBN-10: 0815322577
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Series Introduction
	Volume Introduction
	Myth and Symbol in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology: The Limits of Demythologizing	1
	The Meaning of "Mythology" in Relation to the Old Testament	15
	Myth and the New Testament: The Greek Word [actual symbol not reproducible]	25
	New Testament and Mythology	29
	Judaism and the Modern Political Myths	73
	The Mythic	85
	The Meaning and Function of Myth in Greek and Roman Literature	105
	The Prestige of the Cosmogonic Myth	129
	Myth and Reality	143
	Mythic Thought in the Ancient Near East	168
	Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article	174
	Greek Mythology: Some New Perspectives	200
	Review of The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East	213
	Myth and the Old Testament	245
	Method in the Study of Near Eastern Myths	264
	Inside and Outside the Mouth of God: The Boundary Between Myth and Reality	279
	The Truth of Myth	313
	Introduction: The Symbolic Function of Myths	327
	Myth: Some Philosophical Problems	341
	Myth in Greek Historiography	357
	The Semantic Approach to Myth	369
	Myth and History in Israelite-Jewish Thought	379
	Acknowledgments	409