African Fables That teach about God (Book 1)

Title

en_US African Fables That teach about God (Book 1)

Description

en_US Compiled by Eudene Keidel

Creator

en_US Keidel, Eudene

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:08Z

en_US 2001-02

en_US 1999

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1978

Abstract

en_US Originally published in 1978 by Herald Press of Scottdale, PA and Kitchener, Ontario, this book is now reprinted by Wipf and Stock. It 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 aetiology. 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 1579102395

en_US 3666 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79020

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Wipf and Stock Publishers

en_US Eugene, OR

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A26 1999

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole