VIII. Conclusion The literature of the OT is a developed literature, the result of a long and stable tradition. It is open to foreign influences and well-used to elaborating and re-elaborating earlier or foreign material. For this reason mixed genres are frequent, and many works resist tidy classification. This is why the study of motifs which can transfer to different genres may be just as important as the study of literary genres. And what happens with the myths happens also with folk tales. IX.