Re-thinking Biblical Story and Myth: Selected Lectures at the Theodor Herzl Institute, 1986-1995 - Hardcover

Rothstein, Arnold M.

9780761811664: Re-thinking Biblical Story and Myth: Selected Lectures at the Theodor Herzl Institute, 1986-1995

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ISBN 10: 0761811664 ISBN 13: 9780761811664

Publisher: University Press of America, 1998

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Re-thinking Biblical Story and Myth consists of selected non-doctrinal lectures presented at the Theodor Herzl Institute in New York City over ten years. A probing perspective that counters the usual confusion of the historical with the moral landscape, while cautioning against a literalist reading of biblical narrative, unites the individual lectures. This type of reading forces a recognition that a mode of thought appropriate for moral comprehension is rarely suitable for historical interpretation. In addition, this work calls for a re-assessment of some highly prized and fairly common perspectival usages applied to biblical content. Overall, the author calls for a re-orientation of modes of thought in interpreting biblical content focusing on the distinction between a moral lesson and the impulse towards historicization characterized by such stories as Adam and Eve.

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Arnold M. Rothstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Foundations at City College of City University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at New College at Hofstra University.

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