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Name: The biblical legend about Josef the Fine in folk oral tradition: plot folklorization

Authors: Vera S. Kuznetsova

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract: The paper discusses a group of folkloric versions of the biblical legend about Josef the Fine, their relation to the written source as well as the ways of adapting the biblical plot by oral tradition.

Keywords: russian folklore, folkloric bible, plots, versions, ethnopoetic genres

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