Author: James Edwin Thorold Rogers
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Eric Ziolkowski
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110478218
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498050944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1884 Edition.

Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 058516584X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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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.

Author: James Edwin Thorold Rogers
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ISBN: 9781440033056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Excerpt from Bible Folk-Lore: A Study in Comparative Mythology The present volume is the result of some twelve years of serious and special study. It is an attempt to apply the principle of evolution to the history of Hebrew and Christian belief, and to lay before the public, for its consideration, the results which appear to the author to spring from the recent researches of Orientalists, whether students of Semitic or of Aryan antiquities. Englishmen are as yet little aware, as a rule, of the vast stores of accurate and detailed information bearing on the comparative study of the Bible which have, through the patient labour of many scholars, been slowly accumulated during the last twenty years. They know, no doubt, that cuneiform inscriptions, and papyri, have been read, and that the sacred books of India and of Persia have been translated, but they do not know how fundamentally this increased knowledge affects the very basis of an examination of the Bible literature as a whole. The author's main contention is, then, that the Biblical literature can no longer be considered to stand alone as a unique production of genius or inspiration, but that its real origin and meaning can only be understood by the application of the comparative method which has as yet been only very imperfectly utilised in connection with the Bible traditions. The mythical hypothesis is not, it is true, a new one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: J. E Thorold Rogers
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498051149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1884 Edition.

Author: Terence C. Mournet
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161484544
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University, Durham, UK, 2003.

Author: James George Frazer
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Thomas William Doane
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Susan Niditch
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068836
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization that produced it. Using a unique combination of biblical scholarship and folklore methodology, Susan Niditch tracks stories of biblical characters who become heroes against the odds, either through trickery or through native wisdom, physical prowess, and the help of human or divine agents. In this volume, originally published as Underdogs and Tricksters, Niditch examines three cross-sections of the Old Testament in detail: stories in Genesis in which patriarchs pretend that their wives are really their sisters; the contrasting stories of two younger sons, the trickster Jacob and the earnest underdog Joseph; and the story of Esther as a paradigm of feminine wisdom pitted against unjust authority. Linking these Old Testament heroes to the legendary tricksters and underdogs of other cultures, Niditch shows how the Israelites' worldview and self-image are reflected in the way biblical authors tell their stories. Through a thoughtful analysis of style, content, narrative choices, and attitudes to issues of gender and political authority in biblical narrative, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore draws persuasive conclusions about the identity, location, and provenance of the stories' authors and their audiences.