Myths and Fictions
Reviews
'...makes a serious attempt to get beyond the confines of any single culture and enter into the mythical imagination of the ancient Hindus, Chinese, Hebrews, and Christian.'
Shofar, 1993.
'...useful and thoughtful...'
Ninian Smart, Numen, 1995.
'Will be most useful to graduate students and faculty.'
Choice, 1994.
Shofar, 1993.
'...useful and thoughtful...'
Ninian Smart, Numen, 1995.
'Will be most useful to graduate students and faculty.'
Choice, 1994.
Table of contents
I. Theoretical Considerations
Shlomo Biderman & Ben-Ami Scharfstein, "Is it All Our Fancy?"
Stanley Rosen, 'The Whole Story.'
Eliot Deutsch, 'Truth and Mythology.'
Lenn E. Goodman, 'Mythic Discourse.'
Ben-Ami Scharfstein, 'How to Justify the Reductive Explanation of Myths.'
Lawrence J. Hatab, 'Evolution and Creation: A Heideggerian Response.'
Charles Crittenden, 'Myths, Stories and Existence: Spirituality Without Belief.'
Peter J. McCormick, 'Fictions of Modernity: On the Views of Charles Taylor and Stephen Toulmin.'
II: Historical dimensions
Laurie L. Patton, 'Beyond the Myth of Origins: Narrative Philosophizing in Vedic Commentary.'
Francisca Cho Bantly, 'Myth and Cosmology in the Book of Poetry.'
Joseph Agassi, 'Halakhah and Aggadah.'
John Addison Dally, 'Once More, with Feeling: Sex, Death and New Birth in the Gospel of John.'
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., 'The Institution of Fiction in Mahāyāna Buddhism.'
Shlomo Biderman & Ben-Ami Scharfstein, "Is it All Our Fancy?"
Stanley Rosen, 'The Whole Story.'
Eliot Deutsch, 'Truth and Mythology.'
Lenn E. Goodman, 'Mythic Discourse.'
Ben-Ami Scharfstein, 'How to Justify the Reductive Explanation of Myths.'
Lawrence J. Hatab, 'Evolution and Creation: A Heideggerian Response.'
Charles Crittenden, 'Myths, Stories and Existence: Spirituality Without Belief.'
Peter J. McCormick, 'Fictions of Modernity: On the Views of Charles Taylor and Stephen Toulmin.'
II: Historical dimensions
Laurie L. Patton, 'Beyond the Myth of Origins: Narrative Philosophizing in Vedic Commentary.'
Francisca Cho Bantly, 'Myth and Cosmology in the Book of Poetry.'
Joseph Agassi, 'Halakhah and Aggadah.'
John Addison Dally, 'Once More, with Feeling: Sex, Death and New Birth in the Gospel of John.'
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., 'The Institution of Fiction in Mahāyāna Buddhism.'
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