Folklore Between the Testaments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Porter (0000-0002-0777-3028, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-146 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1980.9716166 |
| OpenAlex | W1967910198 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
the Society,' I attempted, in different ways, to explore some of the links between the study of folklore and the study of the Old Testament, which is my own specialist field. This, my final address, will be a much wider ranging and hence a much lighter affair, no more than what the French call a 'bonne bouche' or what the late Sir Thomas Beecham used to describe as 'lollipops.' My aim is a simple one: it is to call attention to a few examples of folklore material in Jewish writings from the period of the second Temple, that is a period of some 500 years from roughly 520 B.C. to 20 B.C., which eventually did not get into the Jewish canon and hence are generally much less well known than the books of what is commonly called the Old Testament. The literature in question is divided by scholars into two groups - the apocrypha, the hidden books, the fifteen writings which were accepted into the canon of the early Christian church,2 and the pseudepigrapha,3 works having a false superscription, which did not even manage that distinction, although some of them came very near to it on occasion. However, it is now recognized that, apart from this historical accident of canonicity, it is not really possible to draw any easy distinction between the two
Archaeology · Art · Folklore · Literature · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |