Going to Extremes in Biblical Rewritings

Radical Literary Retellings of Biblical Tropes
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-078184-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

Reihe: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR)

This book sets out to provide a matrix for surveying the literary treatment of biblical tropes. It supplies an overview of the literary reception of the Bible from the earliest times right through to contemporary writers such as Jeanette Winterson and Colm Tóibín, traces the literary reception and treatment of the Book of Job; the figure of Uriah in the narrative of David and Bathsheba; the figure of Lilith; and Angels of Death and of Mercy. These are all handled as specimen histories. This is followed by an examination of the output of several specific early and later Twentieth-Century rewriters of the Bible. In the last chapters, three sets of other writers under particular headings ("the Great Disrupters" etc.) are grouped together with a view to finding common characteristics as well as unique features in their approach to biblical tropes and provide conclusions and suggestions for further research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swindell, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Swindell lives in Mid Wales and is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chester and Area Editor (Literature) of the .

Anthony Swindell lives in Mid Wales and is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chester and Area Editor (Literature) of the