Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- Part II Frameworks/Stances
- Part III Reception
- 15 The Relevance of Textual Criticism for Biblical Interpretation
- 16 Premodern Interpretation and Contemporary Exegesis
- 17 The Bible and Literature
- 18 The Bible and Visual Exegesis
- 19 Uses of the Bible in Communities of Faith
- Scripture Index
- General Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
17 - The Bible and Literature
from Part III - Reception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2022
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Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Methods
- Part II Frameworks/Stances
- Part III Reception
- 15 The Relevance of Textual Criticism for Biblical Interpretation
- 16 Premodern Interpretation and Contemporary Exegesis
- 17 The Bible and Literature
- 18 The Bible and Visual Exegesis
- 19 Uses of the Bible in Communities of Faith
- Scripture Index
- General Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
Summary
This chapter explores ways in which interpreting literature might inform biblical interpretation through the metaphors used to describe the relationship between the two and reading in general.
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 318 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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Further Reading
Blyth, Caroline, and Jack, Alison M., eds. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Breed, Brennan W. Nomadic Text: A Theory of Biblical Reception History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Carruthers, Jo, Knight, Mark, and Tate, Andrew, eds. Literature and the Bible: A Reader. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.Google Scholar
Gardner, Thomas. John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Jack, Alison M. The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature: Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Knight, Mark, and Woodman, Thomas, eds. Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700–2000. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.Google Scholar
Lemon, Rebecca, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Chichester; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.Google Scholar
Stahlberg, Lesleigh Cushing, and Hawkins, Peter S.. The Bible in the American Short Story. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tate, Andrew. “The Challenges of Re-writing Sacred Texts: The Case of Twenty-First Century Gospel Narrative.” Pages 332–42 in The Routledge Companion to Religion and Literature. Edited by Knight, Mark. London: Routledge, 2016.Google Scholar
Wright, Terry. The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.Google Scholar