by Richard Stromer | Aug 31, 2018 | Biblical Myths, Joseph Campbell, Judaism, Midrash, Soul
As I observed in an earlier post, Joseph Campbell was consistently critical of the tendency of the monotheistic religions to confuse myth and history, to literalize the stories found in their scripture rather than understand them in mythological terms. That said, of...
by Richard Stromer | Mar 23, 2018 | Archetypes, Biblical Myths, Judaism, Midrash, Religious Function of Myth
Joseph Campbell was famously critical of many aspects of the monotheistic religions, none more so than the tendency of these faiths – especially the orthodox or fundamentalist versions of them – to confuse myth and history. Since the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic...
