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The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: T&T Clark
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

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The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an Afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney.

These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce - whether by cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text - its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.

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  • Title

    The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama: Murderous Texts

  • Author

    Caroline Blyth

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    T&T Clark

  • Published

    January 2019

  • Weight

    468g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567677983

  • ISBN-10

    0567677982

  • Eden Code

    4685064