Authors: J.F. Bierlein
J. F.
BIERLEIN
is the author of
The Book of Ages
, and is currently writing his next book. Mr. Bierlein served as Director of Research at the Democratic National Committee, after which he served as a congressional legislative assistant. Most recently, he worked as International Programs Coordinator for Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, and is now an adjunct professor in the Washington Semester Program at American University in Washington, D.C.
Multilingual, he is deeply interested in theology, existentialism, Latin American art, the study of classical Greek and Hebrew, as well as other languages. He is also active in counseling and jail ministry.
Mr. Bierlein and his wife, Heather Diehl, live in Virginia.
A Ballantine Wellspring Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1994 by J. F. Bierlein
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Ballantine Wellspring and the accompanying design are trademarks of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
Permissions acknowledgments, which constitutes an extension of the copyright page.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bierlein, J. F.
Parallel myths / John Francis Bierlein,
p. cm.
1. Mythology—Comparative studies. I. Title.
BL311.B54 1993 93-22128
291.1′3—dc20
eISBN: 978-0-307-75464-6
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