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17 - The Bible and Literature

from Part III - Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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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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Print 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

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  • The Bible and Literature
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.021
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  • The Bible and Literature
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.021
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  • The Bible and Literature
  • Edited by Ian Boxall, Catholic University of America, Washington DC, Bradley C. Gregory, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
  • Book: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
  • Online publication: 15 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108859226.021
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