Table of Contents

1. Where Did Jacob Dream his Dream? 2. The Story of Dinah and Shechem 3. A La Recherche des Rephaïm Perdus 4. The Seventy Sons of Athirat, the Nations of the World, Deuteronomy 32:6b, 8-9, and the Myth of Divine Election 5. Old Men or Progenitors? A Proposal to Emend the Text of Deuteronomy 32:7 and Proverbs 23:22 6. The Mythic Mind Revisited: Myth and History - or Myth versus History - A Continuing Problem in Biblical Studies

About the Author

N. Wyatt holds a personal chair in Ancient Near Eastern Religions at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Stirling, Ibadan and Paris and his recent publications include Religious Texts from Ugarit (Sheffield University Press, 1998 and 2002), Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Ancient Near East (Sheffield University Press, 2001) and The Mythic Mind (Equinox, 2005)