Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Cultural Studies. --- Reception History. --- Reception Studies. --- Religion and Literature. --- Bible --- In literature. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Extra-canonical parallels. --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Parallèles extracanoniques.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This first volume of a two-volume Handbook treats a challenging, largely neglected subject at the crossroads of several academic fields: biblical studies, reception history of the Bible, and folklore studies or folkloristics. The Handbook examines the reception of the Bible in verbal folklores of different cultures around the globe. This first volume, complete with a general Introduction, focuses on biblically-derived characters, tales, motifs, and other elements in Jewish (Mizrahi, Sephardi, Ashkenazi), Romance (French, Romanian), German, Nordic/Scandinavian, British, Irish, Slavic (East, West, South), and Islamic folkloric traditions. The volume contributes to the understanding of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the New Testament, and various pseudepigraphic and apocryphal scriptures, and to their interpretation and elaboration by folk commentators of different faiths. The book also illuminates the development, artistry, and “migration” of folktales; opens new areas for investigation in the reception history of the Bible; and offers insights into the popular dimensions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities around the globe, especially regarding how the holy scriptures have informed those communities’ popular imaginations.

Bibel. --- Bible. --- Folklore. --- Reception. --- Rezeption. --- RELIGION / General. --- Bible --- Folklore --- Art appreciation. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History. --- Appreciation. --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Histoire. --- Appréciation.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)