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The Bible in folklore worldwide : a handbook of biblical reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic folklores / edited by Eric Ziolkowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbooks of the Bible and its reception ; 1.1.Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 378 pages) : illustrations : mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110286724
  • 3110286726
  • 9783110286717
  • 3110286718
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bible in folklore worldwide.DDC classification:
  • 398
LOC classification:
  • GR
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Jewish (Misrahi) / Yosef Tobi -- Jewish (Sephardi) Tamar Alexander -- Jewish (Ashkenazi influences) / Vered Tohar -- Romance (French and Romanian) Nicolae Babuts -- German / Christa Agnes Tuczay -- Nordic/Scandinavian / Tracey R. Sands -- British and Irish / Anthony Swindell -- East Slavic / Roberta Reeder -- West Slavic / Margaret Ziolkowski -- South Slavic / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Islamic / S.R. Burge.
Summary: This first volume of a two-volume Handbook treats a challenging, largely neglected subject at the crossroads of several academic fields: biblical studies, reception history of the Bible, and folklore studies or folkloristics. The Handbook examines the reception of the Bible in verbal folklores of different cultures around the globe. This first volume, complete with a general Introduction, focuses on biblically-derived characters, tales, motifs, and other elements in Jewish (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi), Romance (French, Romanian), German, Nordic/Scandinavian, British, Irish, Slavic (East, West, South), and Islamic folkloric traditions. The volume contributes to the understanding of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, and various pseudepigraphic and apocryphal scriptures, and to their interpretation and elaboration by folk commentators of different faiths. The book also illuminates the development, artistry, and "migration" of folktales; opens new areas for investigation in the reception history of the Bible; and offers insights into the popular dimensions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities around the globe, especially regarding how the holy scriptures have informed those communities' popular imaginations

This first volume of a two-volume Handbook treats a challenging, largely neglected subject at the crossroads of several academic fields: biblical studies, reception history of the Bible, and folklore studies or folkloristics. The Handbook examines the reception of the Bible in verbal folklores of different cultures around the globe. This first volume, complete with a general Introduction, focuses on biblically-derived characters, tales, motifs, and other elements in Jewish (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi), Romance (French, Romanian), German, Nordic/Scandinavian, British, Irish, Slavic (East, West, South), and Islamic folkloric traditions. The volume contributes to the understanding of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, and various pseudepigraphic and apocryphal scriptures, and to their interpretation and elaboration by folk commentators of different faiths. The book also illuminates the development, artistry, and "migration" of folktales; opens new areas for investigation in the reception history of the Bible; and offers insights into the popular dimensions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities around the globe, especially regarding how the holy scriptures have informed those communities' popular imaginations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish (Misrahi) / Yosef Tobi -- Jewish (Sephardi) Tamar Alexander -- Jewish (Ashkenazi influences) / Vered Tohar -- Romance (French and Romanian) Nicolae Babuts -- German / Christa Agnes Tuczay -- Nordic/Scandinavian / Tracey R. Sands -- British and Irish / Anthony Swindell -- East Slavic / Roberta Reeder -- West Slavic / Margaret Ziolkowski -- South Slavic / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Islamic / S.R. Burge.

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