The folktale in the Old Testament. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Märchen im Alten Testament.
• Further Information: Note: Hermann Gunkel ; translated by Michael D. Rutter ; with an introduction by John W. Rogerson.
• Authors: Gunkel, Hermann, 1862-1932
• Other Names: Rutter, Michael D translator.; Rogerson, John W author of introduction.
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: POETICAL STORIES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; Historiography; Poetical stories; Characteristics-ancient and modern; Poetical stories in ancient Israel; Chapter Two: THE FOLKTALE IN GENERAL AND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; The Nature of the Folktale; Folktale origins; Their international character; Their persistence; The Bible and folktales; Chapter Three: NATURE FABLES AND NATURE FOLKTALES; Nature fables; The wooing of the thorn bush; Jotham's fable; Nature folktales; Ezekiel's funerary song; Nebuchadnezzar's dream; The lawsuit against the vineyard. The war between the forest and the seaThe body and its members; Chapter Four: FOLKTALE MOTIFS DRAWN FROM NATURE; The Power of Speech; Animals and the supernatural; Nathan's parable; Fabulous creatures; Aetiological motifs; The animal world: past and future; Plant and natural object motifs; The tree of life and the tree of knowledge; Wonderful lands; Paradise; Jerusalem; The land of milk and honey; The world mountain; Far wanderings; Chapter Five: FOLKTALES ABOUT TOOLS AND OTHER OBJECTS; The dispute; Bread; Miraculous objects; The fairytale city. Chapter Six: TALES OF SPIRITS, DEMONS AND SPECTRESJacob at Penuel; The demon assailant; Belief in a name; Present form; Yahweh's attack on Moses; The Tobias legend; The death of Tamar's husbands; Theophanies in Genesis; Hagar in the wilderness; Other supernatural appearances; Abraham under the oak at Hebron; Lot and the destruction of Sodom; Lot and Sodom: parallels; The Lot tale and Yahwism; The Lot tale in Israelite tradition; The granting of a wish; Elisha and the woman of Shunem; Solomon's prayer; The host of spirits; Jacob at Mahanaim; Elisha and the host of angels; Hostile beings; Satan. The wickedness in the bushelThe Gadarene swine; Animal spirits; Seraphim; Cherubim; Other Old Testament creatures; Fabulous creatures in Revelation; Spirits of the dead; Tobit; Tobias: a folktale parallel; Tobias: a 'wandering folktale'; Tobias: the original version; Chapter Seven: TALES ABOUT GIANTS; Chapter Eight: TALES OF MAGIC; Power in the magician's body; Power in objects belonging to the magician; Other magical devices; The spoken word; The powers of the men of God in Israel; Magic and higher religion in Israel; The competition between sorcerers; Yahweh and magic. Magic sleep, blindness of perceptionHumans changed to other forms; Other remnants of folktale magic; Chapter Nine: TALES WITH PRIMITIVE BELIEFS ABOUT THE SOUL; The secret place of the soul; The soul's location; Dreams and the future; Chapter Ten: FOLKTALES ABOUT CHILDREN; The child of the barren mother; Abandonment: Ezekiel 16; Abandonment: Moses; Abandonment: Sargon; Abandonment: Luke's infancy narrative; The Magi and the massacre of the innocents; The sacrifice of Isaac; Jephthah's daughter; Chapter Eleven: FOLKTALES OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN; Youth and age juxtaposed; The youngest brother.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 220.8/398; Folklore in the Bible; BIBLES -- General; RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General; RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks; Folklore in the Bible; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474231619; 1474231616; 1322497672; 9781322497679
• Related ISBNs: 9781850750314
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