{"product_id":"scripture-and-literature-9781481319584","title":"Scripture and Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Jasper has compiled forty years of his writings on the relationship between the Bible, literature, and art. While acknowledging the Bible as a sacred text in more than one religious tradition, these writings recognise the Bible as literature in conversations with other literary works and traditions as well as the visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Literature and the Power of the Old Testament\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. On Reading the Scriptures as Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Settling  \u003ci\u003eHoti's\u003c\/i\u003e Business: The Impossible Necessity of Biblical Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \"Down through All Christian Minstrelsy\": Genesis, James Joyce, and Contemporary Vocabularies of Creation Stories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"In the Sermon Which I Have Just Completed, whenever I Said Aristotle, I Meant St. Paul\" (Attrib. Revd. William A. Spooner)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Evil and Betrayal at the Heart of the Sacred Community\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Jim Crace: Inventor of Worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. J. M. W. Turner: Interpreter of the Bible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. The Desert in Biblical Art: William Holman Hunt's  \u003ci\u003eThe Scapegoat\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. The Bible, Christianity, and War in English Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Teaching the Bible and Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelected Reading List\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Baylor University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530834354519,"sku":"9781481319584","price":36.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781481319584.jpg?v=1731880687","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/scripture-and-literature-9781481319584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}