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The Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis

By Robert Graves , Raphael Patai

Book information

Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Year
2004
ISBN
185754661X, 9781857546613
LCC
BS1236 .G7 2005
Open Library ID
OL22624527M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (43233284 bytes)
Pages
326\326
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the book of Genesis resulted from a remarkable collaboration between one scholar raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It goes beyond Christian biblical and Judaic myth and incorporates midrashes, folk tales, apocryphal texts, and other obscure sources to extend and complete the stories. An intriguing view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical accounts is the result, along with a rich sense of a culture consisting of oral and literary traditions, where the spiritual is deeply rooted in landscape and history.

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