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Epic poetry --- Heroes in literature. --- Heroes in the Bible. --- Poetry, Ancient --- Sea in literature. --- Sea in the Bible. --- History and criticism.

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This book examines the long-debated issue of the relationship between the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern myths. Using an innovative, interdisciplinary methodology that combines theories of metaphor and narrative, Paul Cho argues that the Hebrew Bible is more deeply mythological than previously recognized. Because the Hebrew Bible contains fragments of the sea myth but no continuous narrative, the study of myth in the Hebrew Bible is usually circumscribed to the level of motifs and themes. Cho challenges this practice and demonstrates that the Hebrew Bible contains shorter and longer compositions studded with imagery that are structured by the plot of sea myths. Through close analysis of key Near Eastern myths and biblical texts, Cho shows that myth had a more fundamental influence on the plot structure and conceptual framework of the Hebrew Bible than has been recognized.

Myth in the Old Testament --- Sea in the Bible --- 221.08*3 --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Demythologization --- Myth in the Bible --- Mythology --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Myth in the Old Testament. --- Sea in the Bible.

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Ancient myths about watery chaos uniquely transcend time and culture to speak to the universal human condition as expression to the hopes, aspirations and fears that have defined-for ancient thinkers as well as modern scientists-what it means to be human in a chaotic world. The Hero and the Sea examines the mythological pattern of heroic battles with watery chaos in the Gilgamesh Epic, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Old Testament, in the light of anthropology, comparative religion, literature, mythology, psychology, and modern chaos theory; how mythic patterns of heroic battle with chaotic adversaries respond to the cultural needs, religious concerns, and worldview of their audience. The last chapter explores points of contact between the ancient mythic patterns and the discoveries of modern scholars engaged in the theoretical study of chaos and chaotics.

Epic poetry --- Poetry, Ancient --- Heroes in literature. --- Sea in literature. --- Heroes in the Bible. --- Sea in the Bible. --- Heroes in literature --- Sea in literature --- Heroes in the Bible --- Sea in the Bible --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Ocean in literature --- Ancient poetry --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Bible. --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻuraegŭpki (Book of the Old Testament) --- Exodus (Book of the Old Testament) --- Khurūj --- Kitāb-i Shimūt (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemot --- Sifr al-Khurūj (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Shemos