Ebook: Holy Writ as Oral Lit: the Bible as Folklore

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 commandmen.;Contents; Acknowledgments; Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore; What Is Folklore?; Written Folklore; Previous Studies of Folklore and the Bible; Variation in Number, Name, and Sequence; More Duplicate Texts; The Ten Commandments; The Lord's Prayer; Still More Duplicate Texts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.