Paperback. Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Edmund Leach has been interested for many years in the implications of a structuralist mode of myth analysis for the explanation of scriptural texts and problems. His essays in this book continue the line of enquiry he first developed in Genesis as Myth (1969) and he pursues his arguments here with characteristic colour and brilliance of exposition. With the two pieces by Dr Alan Aycock on related themes, this volume makes a fascinating and controversial contribution to the study and interpretation of the Bible. Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also summise past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth (Paperback)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1983
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521274923
ISBN 13: 9780521274920
Binding: Paperback
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The essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures.

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Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also summise past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events.

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