Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
Autor Alan Dundesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 1999
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780847691982
ISBN-10: 0847691985
Pagini: 140
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0847691985
Pagini: 140
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Chapter 1 What Is Folklore?
Chapter 2 Written Folklore
Chapter 3 Previous Studies of Folklore and the Bible
Chapter 4 The Bible as Folklore: Variation in Number, Name and Sequence
Chapter 5 Variation in Number
Chapter 6 Variation in Name
Chapter 7 Variation in Sequence
Chapter 8 More Duplicate Texts
Chapter 9 The Ten Commandments
Chapter 10 The Lord's Prayer
Chapter 11 Still More Duplicate Texts
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 2 Written Folklore
Chapter 3 Previous Studies of Folklore and the Bible
Chapter 4 The Bible as Folklore: Variation in Number, Name and Sequence
Chapter 5 Variation in Number
Chapter 6 Variation in Name
Chapter 7 Variation in Sequence
Chapter 8 More Duplicate Texts
Chapter 9 The Ten Commandments
Chapter 10 The Lord's Prayer
Chapter 11 Still More Duplicate Texts
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Chapter 13 Bibliography
Chapter 14 Index
Recenzii
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.
It has long been recognized by professional biblicists that the Bible is full of duplications and that the Bible originally circulated orally. Folklorist Alan Dundes' original contribution, carried out with the spriteliness and verve for which he is celebrated, is to show how the duplications are not contingent but inherent in the nature of folklore, and thereby to show how the folkloristic nature of the Bible continues in even its written form. A wonderful book.
Holy Writ as Oral Lit offers insight into the Bible without diminishing it.
'Holy writ as Oral Lit,' a brief but illuminating excursus into the Bible.
The fact of variation in the Bible is an important point, which Dundes documents abundantly. . . Dundes's emphasis on folklore analysis for understanding the biblical writings is salutary.
The idea that the Bible contains elements of folklore is not new. What makes Alan Dundes's latest book so remarkable, however, is his claim that the Bible is more folklore than anything else. Even more remarkable is the fact that after reading this book,
such a claim seems absolutely convincing. This is an outstanding book that belongs on the shelf of anyone concerned either with folklore or the Bible.
This study provides an explanation for several of the discrepancies found in the Bible. It also gives the reader insight into the method used in this kind of study.
Dundes persuasively makes his case for the folkloristic origins of biblical literature.
The Holy Writ as Oral Lit is a very worthwhile book. It is enlightening, convincing, entertaining, and familiarizes the reader with the most important research done on Scripture and folklore.
A worthwhile book. It is enlightening, convincing, entertaining, and familiarizes the reader with the most important research on Scripture and folklore. In addition, it gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the nature and genres of folklore.
While written for the novice studying the orally discursive nature of the Judeo-Christian canon, the book will also be useful to more advanced scholars, especially for its survey of the literature and comprehensive biography.
It has long been recognized by professional biblicists that the Bible is full of duplications and that the Bible originally circulated orally. Folklorist Alan Dundes' original contribution, carried out with the spriteliness and verve for which he is celebrated, is to show how the duplications are not contingent but inherent in the nature of folklore, and thereby to show how the folkloristic nature of the Bible continues in even its written form. A wonderful book.
Holy Writ as Oral Lit offers insight into the Bible without diminishing it.
'Holy writ as Oral Lit,' a brief but illuminating excursus into the Bible.
The fact of variation in the Bible is an important point, which Dundes documents abundantly. . . Dundes's emphasis on folklore analysis for understanding the biblical writings is salutary.
The idea that the Bible contains elements of folklore is not new. What makes Alan Dundes's latest book so remarkable, however, is his claim that the Bible is more folklore than anything else. Even more remarkable is the fact that after reading this book,
such a claim seems absolutely convincing. This is an outstanding book that belongs on the shelf of anyone concerned either with folklore or the Bible.
This study provides an explanation for several of the discrepancies found in the Bible. It also gives the reader insight into the method used in this kind of study.
Dundes persuasively makes his case for the folkloristic origins of biblical literature.
The Holy Writ as Oral Lit is a very worthwhile book. It is enlightening, convincing, entertaining, and familiarizes the reader with the most important research done on Scripture and folklore.
A worthwhile book. It is enlightening, convincing, entertaining, and familiarizes the reader with the most important research on Scripture and folklore. In addition, it gives the reader a bird's-eye view of the nature and genres of folklore.
While written for the novice studying the orally discursive nature of the Judeo-Christian canon, the book will also be useful to more advanced scholars, especially for its survey of the literature and comprehensive biography.