The article models the protocultural fields of archetypal-mythological memory Ukrainians and Russians as consisting divergent elements. core are archaic cultural archetypes archetypal motifs “mother”, “field”, “plowman”, “labor”, “individualism”, “equality” for Ukrainians, “father”, “distance”, “vastness”, “inertia”, “collectivism”, “submission” Russians. сore determine differences in ethnic me...

Scholars remain divided today over the origin and identity of the Wisdom Woman in Prov. 1-9. Many roads run back to her door through mythological, 2 sapiential, 3 apocalyptic, 4 rabbinic 5 and early Christian 6 circles of tradition. Attempts to pursue her prior to the book of Proverbs remain difficult, a problem for which at least four solutions have been proposed.

Narratives about parents may help adolescents navigate their own experiences. Yet, research has not examined what adolescents know about their intergenerational past. Sixty-five 14to 16-year-old middle-class, racially diverse adolescents narrated two stories about each parent’s childhood, and 2 positive personal stories. Narratives were coded for structure (length, elaboration), theme (affiliat...

The purpose of this article is to examine major interrelated issues that are present in current discussions about the biblical Flood narrative of Gen 6-9. These include such questions as: the unity and literary genre of these chapters, the nature and extent of the biblical Flood, the relationship between history and theology in the Flood narrative, and the relationship of the biblical Flood nar...