On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible / Michael Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Michael, author.

Series:

Richard E. Myers lectures.

Richard E. Myers Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Bible--Appreciation.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2023]

Summary:

"On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible offers a close reading of some of the more perplexing passages in the Bible, from the Wisdom writings to the enigmatic book of Revelation. Edwards explores the apparently simple instruction in Proverbs to eat honey and reveals unexpected complexity. He sounds the unfathomable depths of St. Paul's revelation that the Christian has "died" and yet now lives in Christ-and goes on to ask what it would mean to take the awesome expression "the kingdom of heaven is at hand" seriously. Three final meditations complete these meditations by scrutinizing the visionary world of Revelation"-- Provided by publisher.

"The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability. Based on the 2022 Richard E. Myers lectures given by renowned literary scholar Michael Edwards-the first Englishman ever elected to the Académie française-this book offers a close reading of the Bible itself, directing attention to the text rather than to commentaries or to ostensible lessons to be discovered by paraphrase.Edwards explores the apparently simple instruction in Proverbs to eat honey and reveals unexpected complexity. He sounds the unfathomable depths of St. Paul's revelation that the Christian has "died" and yet now lives in Christ-and goes on to ask what it would mean to take the awesome expression "the kingdom of heaven is at hand" seriously. Three final meditations complete the movement by scrutinizing the visionary world of Revelation: the riddle of the work's composition, of its images, and of the enigmatic time in which its events occur"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preliminary

1. On Eating Honey

2. Paul on Life and Death

3. Heaven Is Here

4. Seeing Revelation

5. Seeing Revelation

6. Seeing Revelation

Scripture Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Edwards, Michael On the Perpetual Strangeness of the Bible

ISBN:

9780813950525

081395052X

OCLC:

1399166440