Stephen De Young attempts to reconcile myth
and history:
“In reality, the Old Testament historical texts are of the genre of mythic history. This term is not an oxymoron as there is no innate contradiction between myth and history. Myth constitutes the story of
the spiritual reality which accompanies and underlies events in the material
world. Mythic history, therefore, tells the entire story of an event. Myth as
such speaks of beings and events in the invisible, spiritual world. History in
the modern sense speaks of people and events in the material world. Mythic
history explains the union of both and makes the events of history participable
through ritual.”
It’s a neat little trick that doesn’t quite
work. Or perhaps it’s simply too late.
Points for giving it a shot, though.