I'm shocked that we look to an ancient
collection of folktales and stories to tell us how we should treat others and whom we should judge.
Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be
collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.
Not exact matches
That doesn't change the fact that the New Testament is a
collection folktales that were intermingled with real life politics and intended for an audience
of jewish xenophobes.
Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual
collection of Hawaiian
folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.
Manel attributed his
collection of 51 cautionary tales to various sources including Aesop, other classical writers and Arabic
folktales.
Beautifully illustrated, this is a
collection of four Nagishkin
folktales in which the Siberian tiger is closely associated with the main characters.
Even if I could create a
collection of «books I got free» it would be a lower to - read priority than the books
of Siberian and Alaskan
folktales and mythology I've been reading for research.