youngalexander

Again IQotH: In Quest of the Hero
Dundes goes on to examine the Hero Pattern as applied to Jesus according to the psychological scheme of Rank, and concludes;

“So Jesus has it both ways: he is the dutiful son obeying a distant, powerful father, but he becomes one with that father – just as boys growing up in circum-Mediterranean housholds have to learn to progress from a close and prolonged association with protective mothers to a world of men dominated by elders to a time finally when they themselves become distant fathers to their own children as they seek virgin wives and attempt not to become cuckolded (like Joseph) ."

pg 216]

My point is that these mytho-symbolic references and their psychological underpinnings, are a small but critical part of the modern mythicist examination of the HJ question.

Toto

er, was this meant to be part of another thread?

The late Alan Dundes was interviewed by Brian Flemming in The God Movie.