The Bible in Folklore Worldwide: A Handbook of Biblical Reception in Jewish, European Christian, and Islamic Folklores

The Bible in Folklore Worldwide, a two-volume Handbook, examines the reception of the Bible in folklores of different cultures around the globe. Complete with an introduction on the history of the field, this first volume focuses on biblically-derived characters, tales, motifs, and other elements in Jewish (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi), Romance (French, Romanian), German, Nordic/Scandinavian, British,Irish, Slavic (East, West, South), and Islam.