Myths and fictions / / edited by Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein.

A collection of original essays on the theory and the actuality of myths and fictions in the different cultures of the world. The question of the relation of literal truth to truth conceived in other ways or dimensions is a theme which runs through all the essays.

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Superior document:Philosophy and Religion Series ; v.3
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 1993.
Year of Publication:1993
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Philosophy and Religion Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (397 pages)
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505 0 |a "Is it all our fancy?" / by S. Biderman and B.-A. Scharfstein -- The whole story / by Stanley Rosen -- Truth and mythology / by Eliot Deutsch -- Mythic discourse / by Lenn E. Goodman -- How to justify the reductive explanation of myths / by Ben-Ami Scharfstein -- Evolution and creation : a Heideggerian response / by Lawrence J. Hatab -- Myths, stories and existence : spirituality without belief / by Charles Crittenden -- Fictions of modernity : on the views of Charles Taylor and Stephen Toulmin / by Peter J. McCormick -- Beyond the myth of origins : narrative philosophizing in Vedic commentary / by Laurie L. Patton -- Myth and cosmology in the Book of poetry / by Francisca Cho Bantly -- Halakhah and Aggadah / by Joseph Agassi -- Once more, with feeling : sex, death and new birth in the Gospel of John / by John Addison Dally -- The institution of fiction in Mahāyāna Buddhism / by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 
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