First published 2010 by Equinox Publishing Ltd, an imprint of Acumen
Published 2014 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
N. Wyatt 2010
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Notices
Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.
To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN-13 978 1 84553 357 1 (hardback)
978 1 84553 358 8 (paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wyatt, N. (Nick)
The archaeology of myth: papers on Old Testament tradition / N. Wyatt.
p. cm. (BibleWorld)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-84553-357-1 (hb) ISBN 978-1-84553-358-8 (pbk.) 1. Myth in the Old Testament. 2. Bible. O.T. Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.
BS1183.W9 2008
221.68 dc22
2007022358
Typeset by S.J.I. Services, New Delhi
BibleWorld
Series Editor: Philip R. Davies and James G. Crossley, University of Sheffield
BibleWorld shares the fruits of modern (and postmodern) biblical scholarship not only among practitioners and students, but also with anyone interested in what academic study of the Bible means in the twenty-first century. It explores our ever-increasing knowledge and understanding of the social world that produced the biblical texts, but also analyses aspects of the bibles role in the history of our civilization and the many perspectives not just religious and theological, but also cultural, political and aesthetic which drive modern biblical scholarship.
Published:
Sodomy: A History of a Christian Biblical Myth
Michael Carden
Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible
Edited by Philip R. Davies
Israels History and the History of Israel
Mario Liverani
Uruk: The First City
Mario Liverani
The Apostle Paul and His Letters
Edwin D. Freed
The Origins of the Second Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem
Diana Edelman
An Introduction to the Bible
(Revised edition) John Rogerson
The Morality of Pauls Converts
Edwin D. Freed
The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature
Nick Wyatt
History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles
Ehud Ben Zvi
Women Healing/Healing Women: The Genderization of Healing in Early Christianity
Elaine M. Wainwright
Jonahs World: Social Science and the Reading of Prophetic Story
Lowell K. Handy
Symposia: Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation
Roland Boer
Sectarianism in Early Judaism: Sociological Advances
Edited by David J. Chalcraft
The Ontology of Space in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
Luke Grtner-Brereton
Mark and its Subalterns: A Hermeneutical Paradigm for a Postcolonial Context
David Joy
Forthcoming:
Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context
Oral A. W. Thomas
Vive Memor Mortis: Qoheleth
and the Wisdom of his Day
Thomas Bolin
The Joy of Kierkegaard : Essays on Kierkegaard as a Biblical Reader
Hugh Pyper
Charismatic Killers: Reading the Hebrew Bibles Violent Rhetoric in Film
Eric Christianson
Reading Acts in the Second Century
Edited by Rubin Dupertuis and Todd Penner
Linguistic Dating of Biblical Texts: (2 volumes)
Ian Young, Martin Ehrensvrd and Robert Rezetko
O Mother, Where Art Thou?: An Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles
Julie Kelso
Sex Working and the Bible
Avaren Ipsen
Redrawing the Boundaries: The Date of Early Christian Literature
J.V.M. Sturdy, edited by Jonathan Knight
Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century
James G. Crossley
On the Origins of Judaism
Philip R. Davies
The Bible Says So!: From Simple Answers to Insightful Understanding
Edwin D. Freed and Jane F. Roberts
From Babylon to Eternity: The Exile Remembered and Constructed in Text and Tradition
Bob Becking, Alex Cannegieter, Wilfred van der Poll and Anne-Mareike Wetter
Judaism, Jewish Identities and the Gospel Tradition: Essays in Honour of Maurice Casey
Edited by James G. Crossley
A Compendium of Musical Instruments and Instrumental Terminology in the Bible
Yelena Kolyada
Jesus Beyond Nationalism: Constructing the Historical Jesus in a Period of Cultural Complexity
Edited by Halvor Moxnes, Ward Blanton, James G. Crossley
The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud
Edited by Diana V. Edelman and Ehud Ben Zvi
The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires
Vadim S. Jigoulov
Secularism and Biblical Studies
Edited by Roland Boer
Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges
Edited by Matthew J.M. Coomber
Queer Theory and the Marriage Metaphor
Stuart Macwilliam
Simulating Jesus: Reality Effects in the Gospels
George Aichele
Surpassing the Love of Two Women: The Love of David and Jonathan in Text and Interpretation
James Harding
The Books of Moses: Opening the Books
Diana V. Edelman, Philip R. Davies, Thomas Rmer and Christophe Nihan
Three Versions of Judas
Richard G. Walsh
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
WHERE DID JACOB DREAM HIS DREAM?
Chapter 2
THE STORY OF DINAH AND SHECHEM
