Phyllis Boswell Moore (deceased wife of Thomas M. Moore) wrote a stunning book called "No Other Gods: An Interpretation of the Biblical Myth for a Transbiblical Age."
I am wondering whether anyone else has read it.
It is one of the most lucid and convincing books of its kind that I have ever read. It not only looks back on the history and anthroplogy of religion, but it also looks forward. "Foreground" interpretations are made against a "background" of synchronistic unfoldings. Although the author's intellect was rightly described as "adamantine" and "razor keen" by the psychiatrist Murray Stein, the author was never gratuitously "heady." The question she kept before her was as relevant as anything could possibly be: Given the unfoldings of the past, where are we going in the future?
Without going into detail regarding content, these are some, but not all, of the chapter headings:
The Evolution of the Biblical God
Psychic Anatomy: Ego and Self
Ego and the Archetypal Masculine
Logos and Phallos
Yahweh and Zeus
The Turning Point: Satan and Job
The Rest of the Mythic Personality
The Satanic Shadow
The Persona of the Father
Androgyny
The Great Chain of Being
The New Sciences
The Religious Writings of CG Jung
The Larger Schema
The Smaller Schema
Answer to Job
Jahweh and the Mind of Man
The Role of Islam
A Jungian Hermeneutic
Gnosticism
The Gnostic Critique
Gnostic Feminism
Conclusion
I am wondering whether anyone else has read it.
It is one of the most lucid and convincing books of its kind that I have ever read. It not only looks back on the history and anthroplogy of religion, but it also looks forward. "Foreground" interpretations are made against a "background" of synchronistic unfoldings. Although the author's intellect was rightly described as "adamantine" and "razor keen" by the psychiatrist Murray Stein, the author was never gratuitously "heady." The question she kept before her was as relevant as anything could possibly be: Given the unfoldings of the past, where are we going in the future?
Without going into detail regarding content, these are some, but not all, of the chapter headings:
The Evolution of the Biblical God
Psychic Anatomy: Ego and Self
Ego and the Archetypal Masculine
Logos and Phallos
Yahweh and Zeus
The Turning Point: Satan and Job
The Rest of the Mythic Personality
The Satanic Shadow
The Persona of the Father
Androgyny
The Great Chain of Being
The New Sciences
The Religious Writings of CG Jung
The Larger Schema
The Smaller Schema
Answer to Job
Jahweh and the Mind of Man
The Role of Islam
A Jungian Hermeneutic
Gnosticism
The Gnostic Critique
Gnostic Feminism
Conclusion
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Re: Phyllis Boswell Moore
Thu, November 17, 2005 - 5:47 PMWow, hip! No I haven't read the book but now I'm going to save it in my list of "to read" items...if I can just find the end of that scroll to add it on. It sounds very interesting indeed; thank you. The book that I HAVE read concerning biblical times that I found stimulating and provocative was Bloodlines of the Holy Grail. But it was more historical and less philosophical-sounding than the one you mentioned.
