The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 March 2025
- ISBN 9781032248356
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 860 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Halftones, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white 700
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Short description:
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.
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This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries? 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.
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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 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 From Passion to Politics in the Literary Reception of 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 Victim, Vixen, Saint and Sinner: Examining Literary Retellings of Hosea 1?3
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
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