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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-25 - Publisher: Duke University Press
In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrat
Language: en
Pages: 168
Pages: 168
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Language: en
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to