Talk:biblical mythology

RFD discussion: April–May 2017
The first sense seems SOP. I don't understand the second sense. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:06, 8 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. Kolmiel (talk) 04:22, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Implying that the Bible is full of mythology is a dangerous argument. DonnanZ (talk) 09:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The great thing about the word mythos is that it implies nothing about whether, or whether not, or to what degree a story is "historically true". So the Bible is definitely full of mythology, and even a born-again fundamentalist should be able to agree. The point is that biblical mythology is SoP. (Nevermind, if there was some double or backwards irony in your statement that I didn't quite get.) Kolmiel (talk) 12:18, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Whether it's SoP or not, it's debatable whether the bible is mythology or not. A non-believer would say it is, a believer wouldn't necessarily agree. So it may be better to delete this entry as an unproven and disputable fact, not because it's SoP. DonnanZ (talk) 12:38, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * One of the main components of mythology is oral transmission through many generations, thus the Bible itself is clearly not mythology. However, the definition given in this entry says "the mythology giving rise to and contained within the Bible". This is where we have a difference of opinion on whether the Bible is an encapsulation of pre-existing oral traditions (i.e. myths) or a documentation of events that were supposedly happening at the time (whether or not they actually happened, and whether or not they were accurately documented). But again, this is all irrelevant since as a dictionary we have to decide whether words exist and what they mean, and no more. And that still doesn't matter because this is this still SOP. Delete. --WikiTiki89 13:29, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This is indeed irrelevant to the question of deletion, but does mythology really imply "oral transmission through many generations"? That's not my understanding at least. I understand it as "transmission", in whatever form, of "mythoi", that is "sets of stories having a significant truth or meaning to a particular culture". It's in this sense that I said that the Bible is mythology. Kolmiel (talk) 17:04, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Look at the other two definitions at mythos. I think this detail is simply missing from the first one, but really belongs there. --WikiTiki89 18:24, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "mythology", which carries a different connotation from mythos. I think it often carries a meaning of "being false" from myth rather than "stories of significance" from mythos. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 17:42, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The Bible was written on scrolls, it certainly wasn't oral transmission handed down and distorted over thousands of years (see ). DonnanZ (talk) 18:16, 13 April 2017 (UTC)


 * RFD failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:16, 13 May 2017 (UTC)