Landscapes often appear as backgrounds in scenes that tend to be regarded as mythic. Applying our revised myth theory means that these landscapes can gain more “weight” and our reading can produce new insights that alternate models of myth previously obscured.Cross-file under New Book.See also Personified Mountains in Ancient Canonical Narratives: Spatial and Mythic Studies of Mesopotamian, Greek, and Hebrew Bible Landscapes (Mohr Siebeck, 2024).
By Eric J. P. Wagner
Aquinas Institute of Theology
January 2025
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