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Whom Does God Favor
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The Fairy Tale
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
About the "historical" and the "local" Legend and Their Relatives
The most well known definition of the legend, and the fundamental one to all other definitions, is the one of the Brothers Grimm: a legend is a story which is believed; it is told about a definite (real or fabulous) person, event or place. Four factors are included in this definition: (1) the legend fits somewhere in the dimension of the historical time of the narrator: (a) the legend is connected with a definite historical (real or fabulous) event; (b) the legend is connected with a definite person, i.e., a named historical (real or fabulous) figure; (2) the legend fits somewhere in the dimension of the geographical space of the narrator: it is connected with a definite place; (3) the legend is a true story: i.e., although it deals with supernatural events, it is 'believed' by its bearers, it is regarded as being placed in the real world of the narrator and of his audience (contrary to this the fairy-tale, also dealing with supernatural events, is not 'believed' by the same narrating community). The Grimms' propositions are examined on a corpus of Jewish-Near Eastern legendary material.
Weapons Upon Her Body
The biblical stories of Lot’s daughters, Tamar, Ruth and Bathsheba, share much in common – singular women who are left to rely upon their own wits to achieve some measure of victory over the men around them. Scholarly interpretation of these women often reduces them to mere stock characters who inform civic notions about Israel, the perennial underdog who, like these women, achieves against great odds. Or, they reflect the trickery and moral ambiguity inherent in their line as ancestresses of the House of David. However, when read for their gender information (and not for what they can tell readers about Israel), one finds women who employ strategies of deception and trickery, motivated ...
A Prelude to Biblical Folklore
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 ...
From Iberia to Diaspora
This rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles offers fascinating new insights into the history and culture of Sephardic Jewry both in pre-Expulsion Iberia and throughout the far-flung diaspora.
International Folkloristics
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.
