Book contents
- Biblical Blaspheming
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- Biblical Blaspheming
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The persistence of blasphemy
- Part II Biblical exhibitions/biblical exhibitionism
- Part III Inappropriate involvement in the biblical text
- Part IV Beyond ‘the Bible as literature’
- Chapter 6 ‘Not with a bang but a whimper’:
- Chapter 7 The fear of loss inherent in writing:
- Chapter 8 John Donne and the baroque prophets
- Part V Theo-politics, authority and the Bible
- Select bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - ‘Not with a bang but a whimper’:
Shrunken eschatologies of the twentieth/twenty-first centuries – and the Bible
from Part IV - Beyond ‘the Bible as literature’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Biblical Blaspheming
- Frontispiece
- Frontispiece
- Biblical Blaspheming
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The persistence of blasphemy
- Part II Biblical exhibitions/biblical exhibitionism
- Part III Inappropriate involvement in the biblical text
- Part IV Beyond ‘the Bible as literature’
- Chapter 6 ‘Not with a bang but a whimper’:
- Chapter 7 The fear of loss inherent in writing:
- Chapter 8 John Donne and the baroque prophets
- Part V Theo-politics, authority and the Bible
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Biblical BlasphemingTrials of the Sacred for a Secular Age, pp. 229 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012