A prelude to biblical folklore
Subtitle: underdogs and tricksters
By: Susan Niditch.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Folklore in the Bible.
Description: "Niditch examines three cross-sections of the Old Testament in detail: stories in Genesis in which patriarchs pretend that their wives are really their sisters; the contrasting stories of two younger sons, the trickster Jacob and the earnest underdog Joseph; and the story of Esther as a paradigm of feminine wisdom pitted against unjust authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Underdogs and tricksters. 1st ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1987, in series: New voices in biblical studies.