Article

Name: Folklore versions of legends related to biblical events and personages: sources and mechanisms of formation

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 group of oral folk stories related to biblical events and characters forms, their sources, methods of a combination of the folk elements and the Christian literature are the subject of the article.

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

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