RE: rewriting the bible part 2 - exodus
March 20, 2016 at 6:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 6:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 20, 2016 at 6:17 am)Aractus Wrote: All of this encompasses a broader understanding from the individual works themselves, but that doesn't make them mythological. Mythology is an anthropological concept, as well as a metaphysical one. Fiction is invented, and is some form of art or literature. Myths are more organic, they are not invented and have a metaphysical reality that fictional stories do not. It may seem difficult to grasp, but no one invented the Exodus story - it's organic. That's why, for example, the Pharaoh has no name, even though in a true historical story written down he should have a clear identity.
No one invented the "good guy saves the girl" narrative either, in that sense. Any specific mythology is as invented (and inventive) as any other work of fiction, and is just as much a work of art, and literature. The metaphysical reality of myth is no different than the metaphysical reality of any other work of fiction. Take a look at our movies before and after 9/11.
Tell me that no one chose to make pharoah, even in the abstract, the antagonist? Tell me that no one invented the plagues. Tell me that no one invented the details of the story, such as they are. Tell me that they're non-fiction? You can't, because you know better.
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