Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions

. Ed(s): Williams, D H (University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of B

ISBN 10: 0268044287 / ISBN 13: 9780268044282

Edité par University of Notre Dame Press, 2014

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Editor(s): Williams, D H (University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of British Columbia University of Cambridge University of British Columbia); Donnelly, Phillip J (Baylor University, Texas). Num Pages: 355 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 678. . 2014. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titre: Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions
• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0268044287
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780268044282
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

For more than four decades, David Lyle Jeffrey has enriched the world of Christian scholarship. Throughout his work, Jeffrey has drawn attention to the ways in which imaginative engagements with biblical texts have been central to major shifts in Christian and post-Christian hermeneutics, ethics, and aesthetics. The purpose of this volume is to challenge and deepen that growing discourse by showing how English literature across varied traditions unfolds a central Christian interaction between divine Incarnation, invented narrative, and ethical praxis. In their essays, the authors demonstrate how an imaginative engagement with biblical narratives, in historical or contemporary writing, continues to provide a fruitful means to address the intellectual and ethical antinomies of the postmodern scene.

The articles in this collection form two groups: the first set of essays focuses on specific episodes or moments of historical change within European biblical literary traditions; the second group focuses on the dissemination of biblical literary engagements in areas outside of European contexts, ranging from North America to South Africa to China. Unique in the wide range of topics it covers--itself a reflection of Jeffrey's own broad scope of scholarship--the collection functions as a working example of Jeffrey's thesis that the biblical tradition has a far-reaching influence on the development of Western literature, even by those who are reluctant to acknowledge its present influence.

À propos des auteurs

D. H. Williams is professor of religion in patristics and historical theology at Baylor University.

Phillip J. Donnelly is director and associate professor of literature in the Great Texts Program at Baylor University.