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	Mythology
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
		Mythology is the title of a 1942 work by Edith Hamilton detailing Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology with their sources.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (700 words)

	Semitic Mythology
		Semitic mythology arose among several cultures that flourished in the ancient Near East, a region that extended from Mesopotamia* in modern Iraq to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
		The rivalry between the farmer and the herder in this myth is echoed in the Jewish story of Cain and Abel.
		Jewish tradition influenced Christianity, a monotheistic faith that began as an offshoot of Judaism.
	www.mythencyclopedia.com /Sa-Sp/Semitic-Mythology.html (2534 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - DEMONOLOGY. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jewish demonology can at no time be viewed as the outcome of an antecedent Hebrew belief.
		The whole Jewish and pagan world at the beginning of the Christian era believed in those magic formulas by which the evil powers of the demons could be subdued, and the Jewish exorcists found a fertile soil everywhere for the cultivation of their Essene notions and their magic.
		Belief in the power of the Law became the antidote against what may be termed "Satanophobia," and against the spirit of pessimism and asceticism which was fostered by the Essenes and by their Christian heirs.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=245&letter=D (5643 words)

	Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com
		Jewish guilt is the culprit for why you are so tidy, or so messy, date too much, or too little, indulge your children or discipline them.
		Jewish guilt explains why you worry about your parents, your children, your cleaning lady, the poor of Africa, or why you worry that you don’t worry enough.
		Molly Jong-Fast, Erica Jong’s daughter, asserts that “we suffer two great inheritances of the Jewish people: irritable bowel syndrome and guilt,” and deems our quintessential Jewish way of life as “praying on a shrink’s sofa.” A recurrent theme is the daughter’s difficulties with her mother, magnified to represent the irredeemable villainy of all Jewish mothers.
	www.forward.com /article/the-myth-of-jewish-guilt (1018 words)

	ZOROASTRIANISM, JUDAISM, AND CHRISTIANITY
		It is highly unlikely that Jewish scholars and thinkers ever directly encountered Zoroastrian scriptures such as the Gathas (the founding text of the Zoroastrian faith, attributed to the Prophet Zarathushtra himself) or the Yashts (hymns of praise to various intermediate deities and guardian spirits, adapted from pre- Zarathushtrian mythology).
		Jewish thinkers and prophets even before the Exile were hinting at a concept of One God who was greater than just an ethnic divinity.
		Jewish Temple practice required a continuously burning flame at the altar (Exodus 27:20) though this flame did not have the special "iconic" quality of the Zoroastrian sacred fire.
	www.pyracantha.com /zjc3.html (3516 words)

	The Truth about the Jewish Scriptures 1. Jewish Mythology. AskWhy! Publications.
		To paraphrase a "revisionist," Philip R Davies, of Sheffield University, the notion of an "ancient" or "Biblical" Israel is a "modern conception," perpetuated by Jewish and Christian writers for the same theological reasons as the writers and editors of the Hebrew Bible.
		The critics of the truth of the Jewish scriptures as history are tired of hearing this, and are tired of hearing so-called archaeological experts lie through their eye teeth about what the archaeological record says.
		Jewish nationalists in the second century BC found the stories valuable in giving a basis for their new state, and to warn Jews off Greek gods and culture.
	essenes.net /m106.htm (8761 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/JEWISH MAGICAL REALISM: Writing To Tell The Tale by Tamara Kaye ...
		Jewish history is a primer in understanding magical realism: a small group of wanderers who are persecuted wherever they go because they persist in shooting the clay feet from every idol and in finding God in the imagination rather than in the flesh.
		Jewish Oral Law is comprised of two sections: the legal section where the mitzvot(3) and halakha(4) are addressed; and a section (or, if you will, a treasury) of secretive, deeper teachings under which the aggadah, a medium of rabbinical teachings, is kept.
		Both Jewish and Latin American magical realism have a flair for the strange and uncanny, an interest in the journey or grail story as a shared motif, an unapologetic use of archetypal characters and symbology, and exaggerative narratives that are rendered believable nonetheless.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/nonficSellmanJewishMR.html (5303 words)

	(DV) M.S. Alam: Lerner, Said and the Palestinians
		Jewish immigration amounted to a Jewish invasion that would necessarily lead to the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians.
		Its historical value –- as the site of the ancient Jewish state, and the land promised by Yahweh to the Hebrews –- would be useful in mobilizing Jewish support for the Zionist project.
		It was born out of the contradictions of the history of European Jews, a contradiction that would be resolved by the convergence of Jewish influence and Western imperial power, combining to serve the interests of both.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Jan04/Alam0113.htm (2055 words)

	Blood, Gender and Power in Christianity and Judaism
		Her symbolism, history and literature are debated among Jewish scholars, feminists and other intellectuals.
		Although the figure of Lilith is commonly found in Jewish folklore and midrash, the origin of Lilith is as a Sumerian succubus.
		Jewish halakhic law forbids the spilling of a man's seed and Lilith takes advantage of this, during masturbation and erotic dreams, and uses it to replenish her own offspring.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Power/lilith.htm (859 words)

	Des'Tyn'Nee - Mythology
		The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μυθος mythos, a story or legend, and λογος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity.
		In modern usage, mythology is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
		Notably, during Romanticism, folktales and fairy tales were perceived as eroded fragments of earlier mythology (famously by the Brothers Grimm and Elias Lönnrot).
	destynnee.livejournal.com /731204.html (2606 words)

	Mythology - Gurupedia
		Greek mythology, and Norse mythology, which were nearly extinct at one time.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
		Aboriginal mythology (natives of Australia) - Melanesian mythology - Micronesian mythology -
	www.gurupedia.com /m/my/mythology.htm (1041 words)

	Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink
		"Jewish mythology" may be a legitimate subject for separate DISCUSSION and there are views on it, but it cannot be the chief heading for subjects and texts related to Judaism.
		Jewish mysticism is an inherent part of large parts of Sephardic Jews and of all Hasidic Judaism Jews as they follow the teachings of some of the greatest rabbis respected by ALL Jews.
		Obviously some Jewish legends have serious mystical religious implications, but many of them have an important cultural and/or literary component that isn't necessarily tied to belief or to history or to mysticism: the story of the Golem, among other things, is also simply a cracker-jack story.
	simshalom.blogspot.com /2004/07/debate-between-simshalom-and-those-who.html (3758 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Judaic mythology
		The Talmud itself, the cornerstone of Jewish scholarship, is divided into two parts: Halakha, the body of practical laws and traditions, and the Aggada, a body of tales and legends that explains the Bible homiletically.
		The two systems cannot be truly separated in spirit; teaching, law, folklore, the wondrous tale and the formal myth are all interwoven into one great tradition.
		For questions and/or comments concerning Judaic mythology, you can contact the editor of this section, Ilil Arbel.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/mythology/middle_east/judaic (256 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		The Jewish vote, which in recent years has played a significant role in supporting the victor, may very well be one of the factors to swing this race.
		It was in large part this Jewish bloc which, together with similarly inclined African American voters in 1973, elected Tom Bradley mayor of Los Angeles.
		Jewish Journal senior columnist Marlene Marks has made a case for Villaraigosa, a former union organizer, as ”the Jewish candidate,” and she quotes County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky speaking in similar terms.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=6993 (956 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This broader truth runs deeper than the advent of critical history which may, or may not, exist as in an authoritative written form which becomes "the story" (Preliterate oral traditions may vanish as the written word becomes "the story" and the literate become "the authority").
		One can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, New Age beliefs, certain aspects of religion and so forth.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/mythology (2842 words)

	IslamiCity.com - Lerner, Said And The Palestinians
		It is Jewish mythology alone that confers legitimacy of sorts to the Jewish right of return.
		"He never took the step of acknowledging that Palestinian resistance to Jewish immigration in the years when Jews were trying to escape the gas chambers of Europe or the displaced persons camps of 1945-48 was immoral (emphasis added)." At best, the argument in tendentious.
		As the contradictions of the Zionist project deepen, forcing it to draw the United States directly into the conflict, that same racism and bigotry are being mobilized in the West, and especially the United States, to support another assault on the rights of the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.
	www.islamicity.com /Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0401-2194 (2156 words)

	Scholar espouses spirit
		For this reason, he downplays miracles and mythology in Jewish tradition, as well as ecstatic teachings and even ethnicity.
		Mainstream Jewish thought is moving in the opposite direction from rationalists like Maimonides; there is too much emphasis on mysticism, feelings of belonging and personal spirituality, he says.
		In 1998, the Koret Foundation, in association with the Foundation for Jewish Culture, established the awards "to height-en the visibility of the best new Jewish books and their authors," according to the Web page, www.koretfoundation.org.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/030530/profile.shtml (548 words)

	Calls for Presentations, Papers, Publications: Celebrating Jewish Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Jewish Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association is organizing at least one panel on constructing modern Jewish identities, beginning in the 1970s for the 2007 conference of the ACA/PCA in Boston, Massachusetts, April 4-7, 2007.
		In addition, Jewish characters are at the forefront of some of the most popular television series from the 1970s to the present.
		Many times, these Jewish characters are played by actors who themselves are Jewish, which gives their characters greater validity in the minds of the viewers.
	www.unm.edu /~loboblog/mort/archives/008348.html (241 words)

	Mazikeen — FactMonster.com
		A species of beings in Jewish mythology exactly resembling the Arabian Jinn or genii, and said to be the agents of magic and enchantment.
		The allusion is to a Jewish tradition that a servant, whose duty it was to rouse the neighbourhood to midnight prayer, found one night an ass in the street, which he mounted.
		As he rode along the ass grew bigger and bigger, till at last it towered as high as the tallest edifice, where it left the man, and where next morning he was found.
	www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/mazikeen.html (218 words)

	JBooks.com - Interviews and Profiles: The Cosmic Catastrophes of Tisha B'Av
		There are three cosmic catastrophes in Jewish tradition—the Shattering of the Vessels, which, according to the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria), took place before the creation of the world; the eating of the forbidden fruit by Adam and Eve and the resulting expulsion from Eden; and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
		From the perspective of Jewish mythology, each of these catastrophes is equally disastrous.
		Just as the Jewish people plead with God on Yom Kippur to spare their lives, on Tisha B’Av they plead with heaven to spare the Jewish people and to restore them to their rightful place in God’s vision of the world.
	www.jbooks.com /interviews/index/IP_Schwartz.htm (1057 words)

	Friends of Al-Aqsa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		White South Africans and Afrikaners have their own history of suffering, but this history has not been as protracted nor as intense as Jewish suffering, and nor has it become so central to Western emotional and spiritual life.
		White South African and Afrikaner culture, religion and mythology, unlike Jewish culture, religion and mythology, has not provided the bedrock for much of western culture, religion and mythology.
		It has also been argued that because of the particularities of Jewish history and suffering, Jews may do what no-one else is allowed to do, meaning that, unlike anyone else, Jews are entitled to discriminate.
	www.aqsa.org.uk /JournalsDetail.aspx?id=55 (1478 words)

	NAA Conference 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Celebrate the New Year with a provocative unwrapping of ancient tales from the annals of Jewish mythology.
		Join these two communal professionals in a discussion and hands-on presentation of what can happen when a group of people dream big and change the culture (and the physical structure) of their camp.
		The Religious Action Center (RAC) in Washington, D.C. pursues social justice and religious liberty by mobilizing the American Jewish community and serving as the Reform Movement’s advocate in the capital of the United States.
	www.naajewishyouth.org /conf2006/schedule.php (1323 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The author has selected nearly 700 Jewish myths from a wide variety of sources: Hebrew scriptures, Talmud and midrash, kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, chassidic texts and the Apocrypha.
		This beautifully produced, oversized volume shatters the widespread notion that Jews have no mythology — an erroneous idea based on the belief that, as a monotheistic religion, Judaism could not include material about pagan deities, the warfare of gods and a strange mélange of angels and demons, spirits and vampires, grotesque beasts and the golem.
		Howard Schwartz, a renowned collector of traditional Jewish tales, is professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5625 (701 words)

	National News
		Schwartz is an English professor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and he has created his own answer: a 600-page anthology of Jewish mythology, with tales drawn from an array of sources ranging from the Bible and Zohar to the stories of Franz Kafka.
		Today mythology is popularly associated with the pagan concept of multiple gods, such as those in Greek and Roman mythology, but that's a limited definition of the form, according to Mr.
		Schwartz divided Jewish mythology into 10 categories: God, creation, heaven, hell, the holy world, holy time, holy people, the Holy Land, exile and the Messiah.
	www.jewishtimes.com /scripts/edition.pl?now=8/20/2005&SubSectionID=31&ID=4944 (661 words)

	/faithforum.org/ Challenge - HISTORY/MYTHOLOGY
		because hundreds of stories in jewish mythology (what's in the OT) was copied from the greeks or the babylonians or the persians etc. everybody copied everybody else.
		What the Bible teaches and mythology teachings are two seperate things.
		The Bible does claim Divine Truth, which is one of the major difference between it and other mythology.
	www.faithforum.org /challenge/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=3109 (1722 words)

	Jewish End of the World Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Jewish Apocalypse holds similar themes to both Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic tales, but lacks in elements such as a defined hell and afterlife.
		Details concerning heaven and other forms of after life are not expressly discussed in the texts concerning the Jewish Apocalypse.
		The Dawn and Dusk of Man is a Thinkquest Mythology Project by Sheila, Min, Ana and Tencia of Montgomery Blair High School.
	library.thinkquest.org /03oct/00875/text/JewA.htm (115 words)

	Pacaritambo Books - Machu Picchu Magazine and Online History Bookstore, Jewish History Books
		Establishing the Jewish Autonomous Region was part of the Kremlin's plan to create an enclave where secular Jewish culture rooted in Yiddish and socialism could serve as an alternative to Palestine.
		Prior to that, Jewish life flourished in and around Venice, contributing culturally and artistically to Italian society as early as the 11th century.
		This is a historical and cultural documentary of heretofore unrecognized Jewish civilization in 30 cities.
	www.pacaritambo.com /jewshistory.html (1982 words)

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