Abstract
‘The Old Testament and myth’ explains how in the Old Testament myth and history are not necessarily unrelated genres. Myths of origin and the myth of the Flood are discussed. History had a mythical dimension, and myth had a historical dimension. We can observe this in the first dozen books of the Bible. The primary actor in this continuous narrative is Yahweh, and that gives it a mythical dimension, and yet it also obviously has a historical component: the books of Kings meticulously trace the parallel histories of the kings of Israel and Judah from the late tenth to the sixth centuries bce.
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