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A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives

The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture [Paperback]

by Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

    • Author

      Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

    • Book Format

      paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      January 2001

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      A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives

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      This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of Bible text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularisation of the Bible, and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingenu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves.

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      • Author

        Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

      • Book Format

        paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        January 2001

      • Weight

        523g

      • Page Count

        356

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521795616

      • ISBN-10

        0521795613

      • Eden Code

        10770

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      • Author/Creator: Yvonne Sherwood (University of Glasgow)

      • ISBN: 9780521795616

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: January 2001

      • Weight: 523g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 10770


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