ABSTRACT
Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology express dialectically. Johannes Hempel calls myth a form of expression of belief, with no judgment about its veracity implied. An Outline of Biblical Theology, G. Henton Davies writes: Mythology is a way of thinking and imagining about the divine rather than a thinking or imagining about a number of gods. The recent discussions of myth are known only in the world of scholars, and not even throughout that world, the application of the terms myth, mythical, and mythopoeic to the Old Testament will certainly be misunderstood. The recent literature on the subject, viewed hi globo, brings out more sharply the difference between the Hebrew treatment of the material of myth from the treatment of other ancient peoples. The Hebrew intuition of the ineffable reality which revealed itself to man as the personal reality behind the succession of phenomena, the agent of the great cosmic event.
