Jordan Peterson's 2024 book — reading biblical narrative as psychological and mythological truth — arguing that the stories of Genesis (Cain and Abel, Abraham, Joseph) encode the deepest patterns of human psychological development.
Creates the psychological reading of the Bible as mythology — We Who Wrestle with God extends Peterson's framework (that mythological stories encode cognitive and moral wisdom) to a systematic reading of the Old Testament, arguing each story maps a psychological archetypal situation.
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