Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as FolkloreThis 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. |
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... thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head " ( Rom . 12:20 ) . The point here , however , is once again to demonstrate a remarkable degree of variation , for example , what the black man said , the number of women or men , and the ...
... thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head " ( Rom . 12:20 ) . The point here , however , is once again to demonstrate a remarkable degree of variation , for example , what the black man said , the number of women or men , and the ...
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... must decline the either - or and insist on having both " ( North 1954–55 : 39 ) . The apostle Paul recognized ... shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house , and when 16 Alan ...
... must decline the either - or and insist on having both " ( North 1954–55 : 39 ) . The apostle Paul recognized ... shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house , and when 16 Alan ...
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... shalt thou bring into the ark , to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female . Of fowls after their kind , and of cattle after their kind , of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind ; two of every sort shall come ...
... shalt thou bring into the ark , to keep them alive with thee ; they shall be male and female . Of fowls after their kind , and of cattle after their kind , of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind ; two of every sort shall come ...
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