...Charles LaPorte Christopher Lane , The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of our Religious Uncertainty ( Yale University Press , 2011 ). Timothy Larsen , A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians ( Oxford University Press , 2011 ). Copyright © 2012 Regents...

...Christopher Vecsey Abstract This article explores how Native Americans have received the Bible. Over the centuries some Indians have been inspired by the Bible, and some have been repelled by its long-standing place in colonization. The Christian invaders in the New World carried the Bible...

... anfred D raudt, H olofernes an d M antuanus: How Stupid is the Ped­ a n t o f Love s Labour s Lost? Anglia 109 (1991): 443-51. 45 Edward Pudsey, com m onplace book, ms. English p o e t D.3, Bodleian Library, 8. 46 Book o fJu d ith , The Coverdale Bible (Folkestone: Dawson, 1975) VIII.c. 47 Shakespeare...

... into their own retellings of the stories that all three texts—the Qur’an, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament—share. This article examines the hagiography by Abdülvasi Çelebi (d. 1415), Halilname , which tells the story of Abraham and draws on rabbinic literature. Several factors led to the use of Jewish...

... E n g l is h La n g u a g e N o t e s 44.1 S pr in g 2 0 0 6 In most ways TPOTChrist Is a standard Bible epic, which Is Itself a subset o f the swordand-sandals genre, as well as of the costume drama.The Bible epic's appeal works prin­ cipally by means o f a four-fold film ic transubstantiation.The...

...Elizabeth Robinson Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 S c r ip t u r a l P oetics E l iz a b e t h R o b in s o n Child of a Baptist religious upbringing, I memorized untold numbers of Bible vers­ es, the names of the books of the Bible and, ultimately, anything...

..., the realm of matter, the w orld of generation and decay. Yet the question I want to ask relates not to the content of this interpretation but its source: W here did David Kimhi find it? It is not in any o f his father Joseph's extant works of gram m ar or commentaries on the Bible. Could it be a witness...

... land taken from a nineteenth-century fa m ily bible. In the second, she offers brief vignettes drawn from her travels in Nova Scotia, Vatican City, Mexico, Ireland, and M orocco.These form the tw o obvious halves o f the poem: the first in which the speaker tells the reader, "Thus should have been our...

... was iboren" singles out his putative English translations.3The m ovem ent from Bede to Æ lfric and finally to the cat­ D an iel D o n o g h u e 83 alog o f bishops in "Beda" charts a course from sophisticated questiones o f Latin theol­ ogy to translations o f the Bible to the universal practice of preaching...

... to achieve justice. And yet, again, the sep­ aration is not complete, for in the classical w orld of "The Eumenides" Athena established courts of law for the purpose of executing justice and the Hebrew Bible enjoins its leaders to establish laws courts to carry out justice. But w hy isn't the law always...

... and the law are distinct entities, the form er a realm o f universais and the latter of their im plem entation. Schwartz's search for the origins of the sacrosanct separation between justice and the law leads her to read the Hebrew Bible, an im portant source of this distinction. Stitching together...

... Ferguson, the Plotter, in The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel (321).6 Only slightly less obvious is his use of Issachar to signify Thomas Thynne in Absalom and Achitophel (738). Issachar in the Bible is a strong asse couching downe betweene two burdens, 7 and to call a man Issachar is to call him...

... and at tim es contradictory.8The quotation of the opening o f the Bible and the poet's evident m odification o f the scriptural account establish a fundamental interpretive dynamic. The stamm ering quality of the phrase "Oreb, or of Sinai" recalls an episode in the life of Moses concerning the invention...

... at the University of Washington in Seattle. His Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible (University of Virginia Press, 2011) concerns the importance of modern biblical criticism to the shape of nineteenth-century poetics and poetic theory. Presently, he is writing on nineteenth-century secularization...

... and holy. Adam: That space is elusive. But the space between the sacred and the profane the sec­ ular is easier to define. Is there a w ay fo r secular people to read sacred texts? Nathan: Yes, absolutely. If you don't believe in God, you can be awed by the texts themselves.The icjea o f what the Bible...

... their bicultural and bilingual identity and history. Contem porary Latino/a authors, in turn, join their com m unities in cultural renewal by creating a fiction that sym bolically "corrupts," to use Northrop Frye's term, the gospels by renewing scriptural meaning. Frye, in his study on the Bible and literature...

... on the concept by suggesting that Pam ela s writings becom e a textual body offered up to Mr. B. in place of h er physical body. From the start o f Mr. B. s siege on h e r chastity, Pam ela s ex­ tensive Bible-reading bolsters her virtue and prudence. Despite her inexperience, she knows that submission would...

... in a form ulation well known and rhetorically im pres­ sive. A nd God answered Moses, I AM THAT I AM. Also he said, thus shalt thou say un to the children of Israel, I AM h ath sent me to you in both the Geneva Bible (1560) and the Bishops Bible (1568) .2The second point is that close reading o f...

... o t yet have the true taste that finds both literary and spiritual excellence in the Bible. O ur poetic tastes are of the devil's party, and we ought to know it (194). Because sequential o rd er is so im portant to his retelling of the B ard s story, M cM ahon organizes his chapters to com pare...

... in Shakespeare s England. The apocryphal Book ofJu d ith was included in m ost editions o f the Bible, and the story was retold in the visual arts by such artists as M antegna, Rubens, and Caravaggio.2Philip Sidney in fact cites the trium ph of Ju d ith over H olofernes as a com m on inspira­ tional them e...