{"product_id":"the-bible-and-literature-isbn-9780631208570","title":"The Bible and Literature","description":"There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language.  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiblical and Literary Criticism: A History of Interaction: Stephen Prickett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterary Readings of the Bible: Trends in Modern Criticism: David Jasper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Creation (Genesis 1-2): John Milton, \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBook VII. Lines 205-216.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Spacious Firmament on High\": Joseph Addison.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographia Literaria.\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter XIII: S.T. Coleridge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChoruses from The Rock (VII): T.S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD. H. Lawrence, \"Let There be Light\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Magician's Nephew: C.S. Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the Beginning was the Word\" (John 1:1-18): Justin Martyr, \u003ci\u003eApology.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivine Sonnets.\u003c\/i\u003e No. 4: John Donne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLectures on Revealed Religion.\u003c\/i\u003e : S. T.Coleridge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaust, Part 1:\u003c\/i\u003e Goethe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Morgan Maggiore:\u003c\/i\u003e Lord Byron.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e No. 1651 (\"A Word Made Flesh is Seldom\"): Emily Dickenson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the Beginning was the Three-pointed Star\": Dylan Thomas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Grammatology:\u003c\/i\u003e Jacques Derrida.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fall (Genesis 3:1-3):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City of God.\u003c\/i\u003e \"Adam Lay in Bondage\": St. Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise Lost,\u003c\/i\u003e Book LX. Lines 655-792: John Milton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarl of Rochester, \"The Fall\": John Wilmot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Tree of Knowledge\": Abraham Cowley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFree Fall:\u003c\/i\u003e William Golding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19): \u003ci\u003ePentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth and Rashi's Commentary.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City of God.\u003c\/i\u003e 14th Century English Passion Play: Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReligio Medici:\u003c\/i\u003eSir Thomas Browne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Hardy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFear and Trembling:\u003c\/i\u003e Soren Kierkegaard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLetter of 1921: Franx Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"England, my England\": D.H. Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young\": Wilfrid Owen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMimesis: Erich Auerbach.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacob and Esau (Genesis 27:15-35): \u003ci\u003eThe City of God:\u003c\/i\u003e Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Donne, \u003ci\u003eHoly Sonnets:\u003c\/i\u003e John Donne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo. XI. Francis Quarles, \"On Jacob's Purchase\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Year:\u003c\/i\u003e John Keble.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph and his Brothers:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Mann.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMidnight's Children:\u003c\/i\u003e Salman Rushdie.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWrestling Jacob (Genesis 32:22-32): Izaak Walton, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of John Donne.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Wrestling Jacob\": Charles Wesley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Jacob Wrestling with the Angel\": Jones Very.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Carrion Comfort\": Gerald Manley Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A little east of Jordan\", \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems:\u003c\/i\u003e Emily Dickenson. No. 59.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Weeping we hold him fast tonight\": Christina Rossetti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Struggle with the Angel: Roland Barthes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSon of Laughter:\u003c\/i\u003e Frederick Beuchner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid and Bathsheba (II Samuel 11:1-13): George Peele, \u003ci\u003eThe Love of King David and Fair Bathsabe.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Prologue to Penitential Psalms: Sir Thomas Wyatt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsalom and Achitophel:\u003c\/i\u003e John Dryden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFar From the Madding Crowd:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Hardy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter:\u003c\/i\u003e Nathaniel Hawthorne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod Knows:\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph Heller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBathsheba:\u003c\/i\u003e Torgny Lindgren.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Still Small Voice\" (I Kings 19:8-13): Dante, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy (Purgatory).\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Living Flame of Love\": St. John of the Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Year:\u003c\/i\u003e John Keble.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind\": John Greenleaf Whittier.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Surrender of a Cockney:\u003c\/i\u003e G. K. Chesterton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Successful Summer\": David Schbert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lord is My Shepherd\" (Psalm 23): Miles Coverdale, \u003ci\u003ePsalm 23.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm 23:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Sternhold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry V:\u003c\/i\u003e William Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm 23:\u003c\/i\u003e George Herbert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm 23:\u003c\/i\u003e Richard Crashaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress:\u003c\/i\u003e John Bunyan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsalm 23:\u003c\/i\u003e Henry Williams Baker.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod Knows:\u003c\/i\u003e Joseph Heller.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Very Model of\u003c\/i\u003e a Man: Howard Jacobson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Psalms\":.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Hollander.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I am a Rose of Sharon\" (The Song of Songs): Richard Rolle, \u003ci\u003eThe Fire of Love.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales:\u003c\/i\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer. (Robinson Edition).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Colin Clout Comes Home Againe\": Edmund Spenser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Doctrine and Discipline of Di'vorce, The Reason of Church Government, Paradise Lost:\u003c\/i\u003e John Milton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Garden\": Andrew Marvell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady\": Richard Crashaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Reflexion\": Edward Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose:\u003c\/i\u003e Umberto Eco.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nativity (Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:1-19): \"I sing of a maiden\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nativitie\": John Donne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Anagram\": George Herbert.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Morning of Christ's Nativity:\u003c\/i\u003e John Milton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharles Wesley, \"Let Earth and Heaven Combine\": Charles Wesley.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Christmas Carol\": S. T. Coleridge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Oxen\": Thomas Hardy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Ave Maria Gratia Plena\": Oscar Wilde.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I saw a stable\": Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mary and Gabriel\": Rupert Brooke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Journey of the Magi\": T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Annunciation\": Edward Muir.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XII:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Problem of the Parables\" (Mark 4:1-20): Frank Kermode, \u003ci\u003eThe Genesis of Secrecy.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsaiah 6:9-13. \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Thomas.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rabbinic Parable \u003ci\u003e(Midrash Wayyltra Rabbah)\u003c\/i\u003e [Jerusalem, 1972].\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales:\u003c\/i\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSonnet XVII: John Milton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress: John Bunyan.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ:\u003c\/i\u003e Christopher Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Sower\": William Cowper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or:\u003c\/i\u003e Soren Kierkegaard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Grammarian's Funeral\": Robert Browning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge:\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Hardy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Violent Bear it Away:\u003c\/i\u003e Flannery O'Connor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trial:\u003c\/i\u003e Franz Kafka.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings:\u003c\/i\u003e Jorge Luis Borges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIII:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4:1-30): Genesis 24:10-14.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales:\u003c\/i\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queen:\u003c\/i\u003e Edmund Spenser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilex Scintillans:\u003c\/i\u003e Henry Vaughan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Parables of Our Lord.:\u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I know where Wells grow\": Emily Dickenson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnto This Last:\u003c\/i\u003e John Ruskin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan and Superman:\u003c\/i\u003e George Bernard Shaw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Temptation:\u003c\/i\u003e Nikos Kazantzakis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeshua:\u003c\/i\u003e Moelwyn Merchant.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XIV:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Parson's Tale\", from \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales:\u003c\/i\u003e Geoffrey Chaucer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Prodigal Son\": John Newton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Excursion --\u003c\/i\u003e Lines 275-375: William Wordsworth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A Prodigal Son\": Christina Rossetti.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Lake Isle of Innisfree: W. B. Yeats.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Prodigal Son\": Robert Bly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Prodigal\": Elizabeth Bishop.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Return of the Prodigal Son:\u003c\/i\u003e Henri J. M. Nouwen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XV:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crucifixion (Mark 15:33-39): \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of the Rood.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStabat Mater Dolorosa.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wakefield Crucifixion.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHoly Sonnets, La Corona:\u003c\/i\u003e John Donne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ\": Isaac Watts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor:\u003c\/i\u003e Herman Melville.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At a Calvary near the Ancre\": Wilfrid Owen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:\u003c\/i\u003e James Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Canticle for Good Friday\": Geoffrey Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible:\u003c\/i\u003e Stephen D. Moore.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVI:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus and Mary in the Garden (John 20:10-18):.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Apocryphal New Testament:\u003c\/i\u003e M. R. James.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Prayers and Meditations: St. Anselm.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Who so list to hount....\": Sir Thomas Wyatt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mary Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death\": Robert Southwell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHumphry Clinker:\u003c\/i\u003e Tobais Smollett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD H Lawrence, \u003ci\u003eSt. Mawr:\u003c\/i\u003e D. H. Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wild Girl:\u003c\/i\u003e Michele Roberts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVII:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Conversion of St Paul (Acts of the Apostles 9:1-19): John Newton, \"The Rebel's Surrender to Grace\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Justified Sinner:\u003c\/i\u003e James Hogg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFather and Son:\u003c\/i\u003e Edmund Grosse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wreck of the Deutschland:\u003c\/i\u003e G. M. Hopkins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hound of Heaven:\u003c\/i\u003e Francis Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoirs of the Blind:\u003c\/i\u003e Jacques Derrida.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XVIII:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlpha and Omega (Revelation 21:1-18): Prudentius Aurelius Clemens, \u003ci\u003eCathemerinon.\u003c\/i\u003e \"In dulci jubilo\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise Lost:\u003c\/i\u003e John Miltyon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pilgrim's Progress:\u003c\/i\u003e John Bunyan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Wordsworth, \u003ci\u003eThe Prelude:\u003c\/i\u003e William Wordsworth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharlotte Bronte, \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre:\u003c\/i\u003e Charlotte Brontë.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Last Chantrey\": Rudyard Kipling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens, \"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven\": Wallace Stevens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eW H Auden, \"Victor\": W. H. Auden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEverything That Rises Must Converge: Flannery O'Connor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The three introductory essays they provide are approachable, authoritative and full of meat. The selections from scripture are annotated freshly and stirringly; the commentaries which introduce the literary extracts are models of compression, expanding at a later stage in the mind of the reader, as good teaching should\" \u003ci\u003eJulian Thompson, Tutor in English, RPC Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Each biblical passage is carefully introduced, and there is a bibliography for each section. An excellent book!\" \u003ci\u003eInternational Review of Biblical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A welcome addition to our resources at a time when there is an increasing emphasis on literary reading and narrative theology.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal for the Study of the Old Testament\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDavid Jasper\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in Theology at Glasgow University, Director of the Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology at Glasgow, and general editor of \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Theology and International Journal of Theory, Criticism and Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e He has published widely in the fields of theology and literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Prickett\u003c\/b\u003e is Regius Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University. Co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eWorld's Classics Bible,\u003c\/i\u003e his books include \u003ci\u003eReading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eWords and 'The Word': Language, poetics and biblical interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eOrigins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). He is a member of the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Theology.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language. But the Bible is actually little read and its resonances in poetry, plays, and fiction are becoming forgotten and lost.  \u003cp\u003eThis book is designed primarily, though not exclusively, for students of English, giving a collection of some of the most important passages from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, with introductions and commentaries, and selections of texts from literature which use and incorporate these passages in different ways. It explores how closely the Bible is linked with some of the great imaginative literature in English, beginning with the creation stories in Genesis and moving through to the visions of the End in Revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are extensive introductory essays and full reading lists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990166683877,"sku":"NP9780631208570","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631208570.jpg?v=1761786758","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-bible-and-literature-isbn-9780631208570","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}