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The comedy of revelation : paradise lost and regained in Biblical narrative / Francesca Aran Murphy.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BS521.7 M87 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Francesca Aran.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible--Criticism, Narrative.
- Bible.
- Bible--Language, style.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 365 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : T & T Clark, 2000.
- Summary:
- A highly readable and illuminating approach to biblical scholarship from the author of Christ the Form of Beauty.At a time when new approaches to biblical analysis are proliferating, Francesca Murphy opens up the literary dimension of the Bible using a lively form of narrative criticism, developing a doctrine of revelation which is both original and radically traditional. Murphy argues that the Bible is written imaginatively, and that the best way to understand its meaning is to imagine how to perform or dramatize it. She follows the sequence of heroes and heroines who carry the plot from Genesis to Revelation and presents a fresh and remarkable picture of biblical revelation as the performance of God's image in history, captured by its writers' moral imagination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0567087182
- OCLC:
- 45304184
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