num_pages: 600
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.
language: English
title: Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
titlecomplete: Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
genres: Jewish, Mythology, Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Ancient History, Judaism, Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 359
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.