The Hebrew bible in contemporary fiction and poetry
The Hebrew bible in contemporary fiction and poetry
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Medvirkende | |
|---|---|
| Omfang | xiii, 363 sider
|
| Opplysninger | List of Abbreviations // List of Contributors // Introduction – Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer // 1. The Flood Narrative in Feminist and Queer Perspectives - Denae Dyck // 2. Before the Dragon’s Inverted Scales: Reading the Sodom Narrative in Genesis with its Retelling Stories - Soo Kim Sweeney // 3. She Chose to Turn: Lot’s Wife as Sodom’s Witness in Contemporary Literature - Katherine Low // 4. Sad and Beautiful: Sarah’s Laughter in Itzik Manger and Other Modern Poetry - Zohar Hadromi-Allouche // 5. ‘Ah gots daughtuh, an’she gots daughtuh’: Hagar and Her Offspring in Three Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Reincarnations of her Biblical Original - Kathryn Walls // 6. Seeing, Connection and Visibility in Margaret Atwood’s and the Bible’s Handmaids’ Tales - Jo Carruthers // 7. Seeing Red: The Elision of Gender-based Violence in Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent - Caroline Blyth // 8. ‘The sire, to whom I must make love’: Judah’s Afterlives in Modern Literature - Eric Ziolkowski // 9. Joseph and His Brothers in Twentieth Century Literature - Bradley C. Gregory // 10. Moses as a Leader in Twentieth Century Literature - Stuart Lasine // 11. Samson - Brian Britt // 12. A Different Kind of Harvest: Contemporary Women Novelists Respond to Ruth - Mary F. Brewer // 13. Bathsheba: Innocent Victim or Cunning Schemer? - Hugh Pyper // 14. Reimagining Abishag: Retelling Her Story - Thea Gomelauri // 15. Reception of Daniel in Novels - Jason M. Silverman // 16. Hosea - Kirsi Cobb // 17. Singing Scripture: On the Reception of Psalms in Contemporary Praise & Worship Lyrics - David Davage // 18. Of Siblings and Soccer, Lions and Lobsters: Retellings of Biblical Stories in Children’s and Young Adult Literature - Ina Döttinger // 19. Biblical Retellings in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction - Marian Kelsey // 20. Retellings and Political Discourse - Kyu Seop Kim // 21. The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba - Ceri Deosun // Index. - "This book discusses 20th and 21st century literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities. The chapters, written by an international group of scholars, explore biblical retellings in a variety of modern languages, ranging from Korean and Chinese to Hebrew and Arabic. Most of the contributions deal with retellings of the narrative books (Genesis, Exodus, Judges, Ruth, 1-2 Samuel, Daniel), but a few are devoted to prophetic (Hosea) and poetic (Psalms) ones. Another set of articles looks beyond specific biblical books and instead analyses how the Bible has been retold in different literary genres (Children and YA literature, sci-fi and fantasy, Christian Inspiration fiction) and in modern political discourse (North and South Korea). All the chapters further highlight how literary retellings of the Bible form two-way movements. They reveal the often-subversive quality of literary retellings: retellings not only emphasise those nuances in the biblical texts that create unease, but also problematise their standpoint and question their moral and theological message. The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry is suitable for students and scholars of biblical studies working on intertextuality and reception history. It is also of interest to those working on comparative literature, particularly with regards to the Hebrew Bible in popular culture and literature"-- Provided by publisher.
|
| Emner | |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 9781032248356
|