Description - Myth & Mystery by Jack Finegan
For the past eight years, Jack Finegan's Myth and Mystery has furnished scholars and students with invaluable insights into the world of the Bible. This standard treatment is now more affordable, thanks to a new paperback edition. Culling the primary sources, Finegan examines nine pagan religions in existence during both the Old and New Testament times. Among them are Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Greek, Roman, and Gnostic religions. He carefully documents not only their beliefs, practices, writings, and history, but also their relation to the biblical world. The ancient religions explored by the author "rest upon theological and mythological ways of thought which, to a greater or lesser degree, they all share," writes Finegan. "In their individual configuration, they are very distinct although in various places and times borrowings, equivalences, and syncretisms will be observed." According to Robert Hodgson in Critical Review of Books in Religion, "Few scholars today have the expertise or confidence to write about all the major non-biblical religions of the ancient world.
Jack Finegan is one of the few who does, and he has earned our thanks for a fine introduction to this subject. Myth and Mystery is a solid textbook for both graduate and undergraduate students, a handy reference tool for teachers, and interesting reading for informed laity."
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