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A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives

The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture

by Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

  • Paperback
  • 356 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

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This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of Bible text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularisation of the Bible, and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingenu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves.
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Blasphemy: A Very Short IntroductonA Biblical Text and Its Afterlives

  • Author

    Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2001

  • Weight

    523g

  • Page Count

    356

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521795616

  • ISBN-10

    0521795613

  • Eden Code

    10770

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