Full Description
The Bible and Western Christian Literature is a 5-volume, 1.5 million word reference resource on the impact and influence of the bible upon the development of literature, charting this relationship from the classical period to the modern day. The international spread of the biblical text is reflected in a structure that considers the broader geographical, philosophical, and theological factors that crop up when the bible's role in culture and society is considered. The work reflects a broader cultural narrative that is dependent upon the bible for its relevance and yet also contributes to the bible's own continuing relevance in modern society.
Each volume is edited by a leading specialist in the period, and begins with a set of introductory materials including a chapter on how the biblical text is mediated in the given period. Ten thematic essays then introduce the key thinkers, works, events and themes of the period. Extracts from primary materials are then presented with specialist commentary showing how these texts interact with the bible itself.
The five volumes cover: The Late Classical and Medieval Periods, The Renaissance and Reformation Periods, Enlightenment to Romanticism, The Nineteenth Century, and The Modern Period. The complete work is available to purchase as a print set and also available digitally on Theology and Religion Online via institutional subscription or perpetual access. For further details, visit:
https://www.theologyandreligiononline.com/the-bible-and-western-christian-literature
Contents
Volume 1: The Bible and Literature: The Late Classical and Medieval Periods
Edited by Ian Christopher Levy (Providence College, USA)
1: Introduction, Ian Christopher Levy
2: From Origen to Jerome, Thomas Scheck
3: John Chrysostom and the Homily as Christian Grammatical Instruction, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
4: The Bible and Augustine's Confessions, Michael Cameron
5: The Venerable Bede, Scott DeGregorio
6: Twelfth-Century Monastic Exegesis, Hugh Feiss, OSB
7: The Victorine School, Franklin T. Harkins
8: Medieval Rabbinic Exegesis, Yedida Eisenstat
9: Biblical Exegesis in the Medieval Universities, Ian Christopher Levy
10: Vernacular Biblical Exegesis, Mary Raschko
11: The Tongue of Love: Biblical Inspiration in Dante, Paola Nasti
Volume 2: The Bible and Literature: The Renaissance and Reformation Periods
Edited by Sophie Read (University of Cambridge, UK)
1: Introduction, Sophie Read
2: Mega-Bible and Textual Bible: Iconoclasm and the End of Biblical Theater, Michael O'Connell
3: Raising the Dead: Robert Southwell, Biblical Poetics, and Prosopopoeia, Hannibal Hamlin
4: 'Reading and Misreading Scripture in English Renaissance Poetry: From Donne to Marvell', Andrew Hadfield
5: 'Reforming the Arts of Discourse: Rhetoric, Dialectic, and the Maxim of 'Sola Scriptura', Katrin Ettenhuber
6: Letter and Spirit: Paul, Augustine, Shakespeare, Herbert, Timothy Rosendale
7: 'Coles from thine altar tipp'd theyr tongues with cunning: The Decalogue Poetry of Anne Southwell, Kevin Killeen
8: Shakespeare and the Psalms, Beatrice Groves
9: Heroic Adaptations of Genesis 3: Knowledge and Skepticism in Protestant Biblical Epic, Kelly Lehtonen
10: Eden and the Dream of Place in Renaissance England, Sophie Read
11: Rude Scripture, Alison Knight
12: The Bible as a Material Book in Early Modern English Culture, Joseph Ashmore
Volume 3: The Bible and Literature: Enlightenment to Romanticism
Edited by Stephen Prickett (University of Glasgow, UK) with Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
1: Introduction, David Jasper
2: The Hebrew Bible and Romantic Criticism: Robert Lowth and English Poetics, Stephen Prickett
3: Transcendental Philosophy, Hermeneutics, and the Birth of Modern Theory, Ralf Haekel
4: From Evidence to Praise: the Bible in the Age of Newton, Christopher Burdon
5: Rights, Romantic Radicalism, and the Bible, Jan-Melissa Schramm
6: 'Why is The Bible more Entertaining & Instructive than any other Book?': William Blake and the enhancement of the literary, Christopher Rowland and Susanne Sklar
7: Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Bible, and English Literature, Jeffrey W. Barbeau
8:Creative Engagement: Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Brontë and the Bible, David Norton
9:'The Most Vivid Poetry': The Bible and/as Poetry in Shelley and Byron, Ross Wilson
10: Mythical, Biblical and Utopian Elements in the Romantic Fairy Tales, Dieter Petzold and Johannes Rüster
Volume 4: The Bible and Literature: The Nineteenth Century Period
Edited by Elisabeth Jay (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
1: Introduction, Elisabeth Jay
2: Repeating the Bible: Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms, Eric Ziolkowski
3: Higher Criticism and its literary impact: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Ralf Haekel
4: Science, Literature and the Bible in the Nineteenth Century, Richard England
5: Tracts, Scriptures and 'storied mysteries': The Bible in the Oxford Movement, Gerard P. Loughlin
6: Christology and the Biographical Turn, David Jasper
7: Fiction Troubling the Bible, Elisabeth Jay
8: Questioning the Bible in Poetry, CharlesLaPorte
9: The Democratisation of the Bible: Education, Economics, Ecology, Joshua King
10: Blasphemy and the Bible, Francis O'Gorman
Volume 5: The Bible and Literature: The Modern Period
Edited by Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, USA)
1: Introduction, Kevin Hart
2: Secularization and Historical Criticism of the Bible in the Early Twentieth Century: A Genealogy, Adam Wells
3:Theological Modernism and the Bible, William C. Hackett
4: Literary Modernism and the English Bible, Stephen Cushman
5: Poetry since Modernism and the Bible, Henry Weinfield
6: Re-Mythologizing Faith: Biblical Fantasy and the Inklings' Romantic Theology, Michael Tomko
7: Phenomenology and Biblical Selfhood, Cassandra Falke
8: Literary Criticism and the Bible, Kevin Hart
9: Seeking a 'Phonetic and Semantic Community' between God and Man: Biblical Poetics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century French Literature, Stephen E. Lewis
10: The Bible in German Modernism, Vivian Liska
11: Teaching the Bible as Literature: A Phenomenological Approach, Elizabeth Sutherland
