Those interested in the formation of myth-making in a changing, pluralistic, globalizing culture and the inter-related dynamics of emerging religious Modes/social Vehicles might consult the 1st chapter of Burton Mack’s book, “Who Wrote The New Testament.”  The chapter is entitled “Clashing Cultures” and it is a great description of the collapse of the Greek polis/cosmos culture and the middle eastern Temple/King cultures as they collided in the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s military adventures and the subsequent emergence of the Christian Myth.