Holy Writ as Oral Lit

The Bible as Folklore

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This book helps us resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible's pre-written legacy and that persist in the Great Book today. Most biblical scholars acknowledge that both the Old and New Testaments were orally transmitted for decades before appearing in written form. With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to understand its variant texts. He uses the analytical framework of folklore to unearth and contrast the multiple versions of nearly every major biblical event, including the creation of woman, the flood, the ten commandments (there were once as many as eleven or twelve), the names of the twelve tribes, the naming of the disciples, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, and the words inscribed on the Cross, among many others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1999-01-14
Mått163 x 239 x 16 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor176
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847691975

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Chapter 1 What Is Folklore?Chapter 2 Written FolkloreChapter 3 Previous Studies of Folklore and the BibleChapter 4 The Bible as Folklore: Variation in Number, Name and SequenceChapter 5 Variation in NumberChapter 6 Variation in NameChapter 7 Variation in SequenceChapter 8 More Duplicate TextsChapter 9 The Ten CommandmentsChapter 10 The Lord’s PrayerChapter 11 Still More Duplicate TextsChapter 12 ConclusionChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

In the most recent of Dundes's three important contributions to the study of religion. It is our good fortune that this most eminent of American anthropologists and folklorists well known for his work on folklore theory and on subjects as diverse as German national charachter and American joke cycles, has now brought his scholarship to bear on religion. Dundes's work is already widely influential in the United States and deserves to be better known among British scholars of religion.