ABSTRACT
The problem of myth and history in their mutual relation according to Israelite-Jewish thought is of primary importance to the understanding of many questions in the Old Testament and Jewish religion and spiritual life. To Israelite thought Yahweh's interference in the history of Israel is clearly on the same level as his creative activity. To the Israelites the great deed of salvation wrought by Yahweh was just his act of creation following his victory over the Chaos Powers. Clearly the festival is of essential importance to our understanding of the Israelite-Jewish ideas of "history" and "myth". In the festival there is to be found the real forms of the Israelite interpretation of "history". As to apocalyptic speculation, Noth has shown that in the Book of Daniel there is a striking mixture of two ideas in the description of the four World Empires. Thus apocalyptic ideas confirm their views on the relation between myth and history in Israelite-Jewish thought.
