Structuralist Interpretation of Biblical Myth

by Alan Aycock, Edmund Leach, D. Alan Aycock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521274923
• ISBN13: 9780521274920
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"