The notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.’s Paul Tillich and Germany’s Rudolf Bultmann. But this has rarely been stated flatly by ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss, the anthropologist and philosopher, has died. He was 100 years old. He was the son of a portrait painter, the grandson of a rabbi, and the great-grandson of a violinist. He was ...

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Belief has always been part of the human story, etched into stone, sung in ritual, and woven through every culture. Across continents and centuries, gods were named, stories preserved, and sacred ...

For instance, with the growth in paganism, the appeal of St George has been less his sanctity than his role as dying and reviving god of vegetation, as featured in what we call ‘fertility myth’. Again ...

Rev. and expanded ed. of: Myth and symbol / by Ariel Golan ; [translated from the Russian by Rita Schneider-Teteruk]. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp ...