The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response?

The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
The Problematics of Myth in Judaism......Page 9
The Scope, Plan, and Purpose of this Volume......Page 11
Notes......Page 16
PART ONE: WHAT IS JEWISH MYTH?......Page 17
The Mythology of Judaism......Page 18
Notes......Page 32
Poetry, Allegory, and Myth......Page 33
Myth, History, and Judaism......Page 36
Myth in Jewish Scholarship......Page 37
History, Myth, Allegory, and Modern Hebrew Poetry......Page 40
Tchernichowsky's "I Have Absolutely Nothing of My Own"......Page 41
Notes......Page 45
Can the Teaching of Jewish History be Anything but the Teaching of Myth?......Page 48
The Classical Paradigm for Teaching Jewish History7......Page 50
New Approaches to Teaching Jewish History......Page 57
Conclusions......Page 65
Notes......Page 67
PART TWO: MODERN USES OF MYTH IN JUDAISM......Page 75
The Invention of a Secular Ritual: Western Jewry and Nationalized Tourism in Palestine, 1922-1933......Page 76
Notes......Page 92
A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought......Page 99
From Cohen to Schelling......Page 102
"A Rustling in the Wood": Daimonic Eruption......Page 106
Conclusion: Judaism in the History of Religions according to Gershom Scholem......Page 111
Notes......Page 113
Judeophobia, Myth, and Critique*......Page 125
The Eternal Return of Hatred?......Page 127
The Riddle of the Hydra......Page 130
The Specter of the Jews......Page 133
In the Mirror of the Peoples......Page 135
Judeophobia, Myth, and Critique......Page 138
Mythos and Ethnos......Page 141
Notes......Page 143
PART THREE: CASE HISTORIES ON MYTH IN JUDAISM......Page 157
The Poetics of Myth in Genesis......Page 158
Organization and Insight......Page 159
Seeing Differently: Eve, Abimelech, God......Page 160
Reading the Myths......Page 165
Notes......Page 169
Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Narrative in Philo......Page 172
Joseph in Biblical Tradition......Page 173
Philo in Jewish Tradition......Page 176
Joseph in Philo's de Iosepho......Page 177
Joseph in Philo's de Somniis ii: The Problem about Joseph......Page 180
In Flaccum......Page 182
Notes......Page 189
The Myth of Jesus in Rabbinic Literature......Page 192
The Use of Rabbinic Literature......Page 194
Ancient Sources for the Jewish Myth of Jesus......Page 196
The Textus Receptus: From Jewish Hellenism to Early Rabbinic Texts......Page 199
The Myth of Jesus in Rabbinic Literature: Tannaitic Literature and the Search for the Lost Myth of J.........Page 201
The Problems of the BT and PT......Page 203
Differentiating "Jesus" from "Non-Jesus" Myths in Rabbinic Literature......Page 205
The Gnostic Gospels, the Babylonian and Palestinian Rabbis and Jesus......Page 208
Conclusions......Page 210
Notes......Page 213
Melchizedek in the Hebrew Bible......Page 218
Melchizedek in Later Texts......Page 221
West Semitic Funerary Cults......Page 226
Conclusion......Page 230
Notes......Page 231
The Face of Jacob in the Moon: Mystical Transformations of an Aggadic Myth......Page 236
Notes......Page 254
Introduction......Page 272
Sabbatai's Conversion......Page 274
Metatron and Lucifer......Page 279
Sabbatai as Metatron......Page 283
Sabbatai in Context......Page 287
Sabbatai as Lucifer......Page 293
Sabbatai and Mehmed......Page 296
NOTES......Page 298
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 310
B......Page 311
F......Page 312
I......Page 313
M......Page 314
P......Page 315
S......Page 316
Z......Page 317