The Bible as Folklore
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:40:50 -0600 (00918852050, 4.1.19990212082239.00b29b70@pop.truman.edu)
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Just a note: Alan Dundes, one of the world's leading folklorists, has just
published the following:
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
ISBN 0-8476-9198-5 $14.95 paper
ISBN 0-8476-9197-7 $60.00 cloth
from Rowman & Littlefield, 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Sumit, PA 17214
Dundes has published more than 30 books and is currently professor of
anthropology at U Cal, Berkeley. The new book bears directly on the issue of
errancy because it explains the numerous variations in biblical narratives from
the perspective of folklore and oral tradition. As we all know, and most of us
recognize, the Bible presents mutually exclusive variants of almost every event
of which it provides more than one account. Dundes applies the methodology of
folkoristics and studies in oral tradition to analyze and contrast the variant
texts of such subjects as the creation of woman, the flood, the ten
commandments, the names of the 12 tribes, the naming of the 12 disciples, the
genealogies of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, the
inscription on the cross, the death(s) of Judas and the use of the blood money,
and the innumerable variations in number, name, and sequence that occur
throughout the Bible. In short, it deals with just about every topics we've
been discussing on this list. This book is going to be an invaluable tool for
discussions on these and other topics, because its comparatist methodology will
effectively shut down the privileged status inerrantists try to afford the
Bible.
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Just a note: Alan Dundes, one of the world's leading folklorists, has
just published the following:
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
ISBN 0-8476-9198-5 $14.95 paper
ISBN 0-8476-9197-7 $60.00 cloth
from Rowman & Littlefield, 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Sumit, PA
17214
Dundes has published more than 30 books and is currently professor of
anthropology at U Cal, Berkeley. The new book bears directly on the
issue of errancy because it explains the numerous variations in biblical
narratives from the perspective of folklore and oral tradition. As
we all know, and most of us recognize, the Bible presents mutually
exclusive variants of almost every event of which it provides more than
one account. Dundes applies the methodology of folkoristics and
studies in oral tradition to analyze and contrast the variant texts of
such subjects as the creation of woman, the flood, the ten commandments,
the names of the 12 tribes, the naming of the 12 disciples, the
genealogies of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord's Prayer, the
inscription on the cross, the death(s) of Judas and the use of the blood
money, and the innumerable variations in number, name, and sequence that
occur throughout the Bible. In short, it deals with just about
every topics we've been discussing on this list. This book is going to be
an invaluable tool for discussions on these and other topics, because its
comparatist methodology will effectively shut down the privileged status
inerrantists try to afford the Bible.