Mythology
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So, /lit/, how does one go about the serious study of mythology? I've read Homer, Ovid, some of Virgil and a good portion of the narrative books of the Bible (Gen, Ex, Joshua-Solomon, Mathew-Acts (KJV)) and now I want to look into how these narratives shape later narratives. Some chapters of Auerbach were interesting in this respect, but they're not quite it. I downloaded Levi-Strauss' Structural study of myth. I'm considering Campbell's Hero with a thousand faces, Eliade's Myth of the eternal return and some essays by Jung about archetypes.
Am I on the right path? Any introductory books you know, /lit/? Insights?
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>>7375819
Read this
The Bible isn't myth, pal.
>>7375820
I hate you.
>>7375833
They are. You should read this
>>7375833
Also, watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXlFWBcxBo
>>7375846
Or Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325, by Vermes
http://btdigg.org/search?info_hash=&q=Geza+Vermes
Most modern scholars accept that, disregarding statements of faith, the Gospels of the New Testament as well as acts are framed as a series of mythological biographies.
>>7375842
>Why would they not be myths
That anon isnt into textual criticism. Many people have difficulty understanding the academic approach to myth (Definition 1) and feel the need to conflate it with Definition 2. Your belief or disbelief of a myth doesnt preclude whether or not it is a myth.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Wrote-New-Testament-Christian/dp/0060655186
mobi: http://bookzz.org/book/2326965/9349bb
Burton L. Mack is an author and scholar of early Christian history and the New Testament. He is John Wesley Professor emeritus in early Christianity at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He is basically one of the founders of modern textual criticism and Q Theory.
>>7375867
Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth
Sorry forgot title
