traditional stories of newly-discovered ethnological cultures, which initially did not take the Greek myths seriously. In response, Heyne elevated the status of these narratives, viewing them as primeval human thinking about the world and the repository of human memories.4 When the ancient Near Eastern corpus was discovered and translated, the texts were not treated as part of the larger body of myths, to be studied as a category, but as a corollary to the Old Testament.5
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