The Bible /
The Bible / [print]
edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- New York : Chelsea House, (c)1987.
- viii, 350 pages ; 24 cm.
- Modern critical views .
- Modern critical views. .
The first three chapters of Genesis : principles of governance stated narratively Sacred history and the beginnings of prose fiction Representations of reality in Homer and the Old Testament The wooing of Rebekah The struggle with the angel : textual analysis of Genesis 32:22-32 Wrestling Sigmund : three paradigms for poetic originality The second address of Moses : Deuteronomy 5:1b-28:68 Job ; The heart determines : Psalm 73 The style of Koheleth The garden of metaphor : the song of songs The place and function of the song of the vineyard in Isaiah's prophecy Kenneth Burke -- Robert Alter -- Erich Auerbach -- Meir Sternberg -- Roland Barthes -- Harold Bloom -- Robert Polzin -- Martin Buber -- Robert Gordis -- Robert Alter -- Yehoshua Gitay. The poetics of prophecy : Jeremiah On Socrates and the prophets Jonah and Moby-Dick The boy in the shirt Phases of Revelation "Before Moses was, I am" : the original and the belated testaments Pauline typology and revisionary criticism Apocalypse Geoffrey Hartman -- Leo Strauss -- Douglas Robinson -- Frank Kermode -- Northrop Frye -- Harold Bloom -- Herbert Marks -- D.H. Lawrence.
Presents selections of literary criticism devoted to the Bible.
9780877547204
86012967
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible as literature.
BS535.B655.B535 1987 BS535
The first three chapters of Genesis : principles of governance stated narratively Sacred history and the beginnings of prose fiction Representations of reality in Homer and the Old Testament The wooing of Rebekah The struggle with the angel : textual analysis of Genesis 32:22-32 Wrestling Sigmund : three paradigms for poetic originality The second address of Moses : Deuteronomy 5:1b-28:68 Job ; The heart determines : Psalm 73 The style of Koheleth The garden of metaphor : the song of songs The place and function of the song of the vineyard in Isaiah's prophecy Kenneth Burke -- Robert Alter -- Erich Auerbach -- Meir Sternberg -- Roland Barthes -- Harold Bloom -- Robert Polzin -- Martin Buber -- Robert Gordis -- Robert Alter -- Yehoshua Gitay. The poetics of prophecy : Jeremiah On Socrates and the prophets Jonah and Moby-Dick The boy in the shirt Phases of Revelation "Before Moses was, I am" : the original and the belated testaments Pauline typology and revisionary criticism Apocalypse Geoffrey Hartman -- Leo Strauss -- Douglas Robinson -- Frank Kermode -- Northrop Frye -- Harold Bloom -- Herbert Marks -- D.H. Lawrence.
Presents selections of literary criticism devoted to the Bible.
9780877547204
86012967
Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible as literature.
BS535.B655.B535 1987 BS535