Folklore in the Old Testament

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Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law is a 1918 book by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer, in which the author compares episodes in the Old Testament with similar stories from other cultures in the ancient world. While less well known than The Golden Bough (1890),{{cite book|author1=Gale A. Yee|author1-link=Gale A. Yee|author2=High R. Page Jr.|author3=Matthew J.M. Coomber|title=Fortress Press Commentary on the Bible: The Old Testament and Apocrypha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-R7qAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT67|date=1 October 2014|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=978-1-4514-8966-8|pages=67–}} Frazer's other major work, it is still considered a milestone in comparative folklore.{{cite book|author=Alan Dundes|title=Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JftPCdyMs5wC&pg=PA1|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-0-585-16584-4|pages=1–}}