"The essays gathered here focus attention on the concept of myth and its place in biblical studies through a variety of multi-and interdisciplinary approaches. They approach the methodological issue of how the categories of myth and scripture can be better incorporated into our …
Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly w…
"The Politics of Myth examines the political views implicit in the mythological theories of three of the most widely read popularizers of myth in the twentieth century, C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell. All three had intellectual roots in the anti-modern pessimism a…
