African Fables that teach about God (Book 1)

Title

en_US African Fables that teach about God (Book 1)

Description

en_US Signed

en_US Compiled by Eudene Keidel

Creator

en_US Keidel, Eudene See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:03:00Z

en_US 2003-12

en_US 1978

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:03:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US I had first found this book in its 1999 reprinting by Wipf and Stock Publishers of Eugene, OR. Let me repeat my comments from there, except to note first the yellow cover picturing an elephant and monkey and secondly the second volume, also found under 1978/99. This book contains twenty-one folk tales gathered by a missionary who has worked extensively in Zaire. The T of C is unusual in that it gives after each title the topic addressed in the story and the time it takes to read the story. I have read the first seven. Some may be expanded fables. They are strong on trickery and etiology. The couple of paragraphs after each story are heavy on moralizing, buttressed with scripture references. These comments fail to help articulate the individual tale's meaning. The seventh tale may be the best: The Frog's Strange Rules About Dinner (33). The frog invites the monkey to a friendship meal but insists that he have white hands to eat it. The monkey goes away angry. Later he invites the frog to a meal and serves it in a tree, insisting that the frog sit up straight on the branch to eat it. The frog of course falls out of the tree.

Identifier

en_US 0836118421 (v. 1)

en_US 4154 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79478

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Herald Press

en_US Scottdale, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A26 1978 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole