Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking - Fishbane, Michael (Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago)

A comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism. Here, the author provides a close study of the texts and theologies involved and the central role of exegesis in the development and transformation of the subject.