Archaeological evidence has demythologized some parts of the Bible.
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Demythologize
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1 entries- entmythologisieren verb (1. To remove the mythological elements)
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1 entries- avmytologisera verb (1. To remove the mythological elements)
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[commentating on "mother of all the living" in Gen. 3:20] A similar phrase is used to describe the mother goddess in ancient Near Eastern mythology. Here the image has been demythologized. It simply expresses the biblical concepts of one human race and of woman's primary role--motherhood.
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However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.
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