Manna & Mystery: A Jungian Approach to Hebrew Myth and Legend - Softcover

Knapp, Bettina L.

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9780933029804: Manna & Mystery: A Jungian Approach to Hebrew Myth and Legend

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ISBN 10: 0933029802 ISBN 13: 9780933029804

Publisher: Chiron Pubns, 1995

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Acquainting readers with certain literary as well as intellectual and psychological aspects of Jewish thought, life, and religious experience, the six legends and tales in Manna and Mystery are rich in the Jewish themes of mystical love, endurance, thirst for learning, and persecution. Knapp's essays open the modern consciousness to their ancient insights and wisdom, while seeking the treasure of subjectivity and soulfulness.

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About the Author:

Bettina L. Knapp is a professor of French and comparative literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Author of more than 46 books, she has written extensively on Jungian psychology and the literary arts, including A Jungian Approach to Literature, Theater and Alchemy, Exile and the Writer, and Women in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Review:

C. G. Jung said all myths are part of the collective unconscious. Bettina Knapp's Manna & Mystery is a collection of analytical essays on six Hebrew legends show how full Western biblical traditions are of archetypal images. From the Golem to The Dybbuk, from the Kabbalah to a look at I. B. Singer's Yentl the Yeshivah Boy, these tales are rich in the Jewish themes of mystical love, endurance, thirst for learning, and persecution. Jungian psychology is famous for using myth analysis as a tool for self-understanding, but most previous efforts have focused on Eastern, Greek, and Egyptian mythologies. Knapp takes us a new direction by using Hebrew folklore. -- Midwest Book Review

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