The Bible in folklore worldwide : a handbook of biblical reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic folklores /

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 di...

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Other Authors: Ziolkowski, Eric Jozef, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. [2017]
Series:Handbooks of the Bible and its reception ; v. 1.1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Style and Transliteration
  • Map
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction / Eric Ziolkowski
  • Jewish (Mizrahi) / 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
  • Contributors
  • Scriptural Index
  • Folkloric Index
  • General Index.