A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores

by Eric Ziolkowski (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110388688
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	08/21/2017
Series:	Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	394
File size:	63 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, U.S.A.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Style and Transliteration ix

Map x

Illustrations xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction Eric Ziolkowski 1

1 Jewish (Mizrahi) Yosef Tobi 43

2 Jewish (Sephardi) Tamar Alexander 61

3 Jewish (Ashkenazi influences) Vered Tohar 87

4 Romance (French and Romanian) Nicolae Babuts 111

5 German Christa Agnes Tuczay 133

6 Nordic/Scandinavian Tracey R. Sands 157

7 British and Irish Anthony Swindell 183

8 East Slavic Roberta Reeder 211

9 West Slavic Margaret Ziolkowski 229

10 South Slavic Florentina Badalanova Geller 253

11 Islamic S. R. Burge 307

Contributors 331

Scriptural Index 333

Folkloric Index 341

General Index 345

Editorial Reviews

"Insgesamt ist festzustellen, dass die einzelnen Beiträge interessant und anregend zu lesen sind und einen guten Einblick in die unterschiedlichen folkloristischen Traditionen, die aus der biblischen Überlieferung schöpfen, geben, zumal jeder Beitrag mit einer ausführlichen Bibliographie schließt."
Beate Ego in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 144/7-8 (2019), 744-746

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