SCM Core Text

Alison Jack

ISBN 10: 033404166X / ISBN 13: 9780334041665

Verlag: SCM Press, GB, 2012

Beschreibung

The SCM Core Text The Bible and Literature explores the crossover between attempts to read the Bible as literature and to read the Bible in literature. It seeks to assess what form a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the reading of the Bible would have to take, taking into consideration the background knowledge, preconceptions and theories of reading which scholars from each discipline, literary and biblical studies, bring to literary and biblical texts.The book covers all the key methods of literary criticism such as narrative criticism, reader-response, intertextuality and feminist criticism and explores how they might be relevant to the crossover between the Bible and literature.The SCM Core Text The Bible and Literature is presented as an undergraduate-friendly textbook and will make a valuable addition to the reading lists of courses on theology and literature, hermeneutics and Biblical Studies.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9780334041665

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: SCM Core Text
• Verlag: SCM Press, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 033404166X
• ISBN-13: 9780334041665
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

The SCM Core Text The Bible and Literature explores the crossover between attempts to read the Bible as literature and to read the Bible in literature. It seeks to assess what form a truly inter-disciplinary approach to the reading of the Bible would have to take, taking into consideration the background knowledge, preconceptions and theories of reading which scholars from each discipline, literary and biblical studies, bring to literary and biblical texts. The book covers all the key methods of literary criticism such as narrative criticism, reader-response, intertextuality and feminist criticism and explores how they might be relevant to the crossover between the Bible and literature. The SCM Core Text The Bible and Literature is presented as an undergraduate-friendly textbook and will make a valuable addition to the reading lists of courses on theology and literature, hermeneutics and Biblical Studies.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Revd Dr Alison Jack is Assistant Principal of New College, Edinburgh and co-editor of the Expository Times. She is a Church of Scotland minister, whose area of academic interest is the relationship between the Bible, literature and culture.