...Edward A. Alken Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 The Bible as English Literature By Edward A. Allen Professor of English in the University of Missouri When we speak of the Bible as a work of literature, as the noblest prose in the whole range of English literature from the good...

...Lucius Hopkins Miller Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Modern Views of the Bible and of Religion By Lucius Hopkins Miller Associate Professor of Biblical Instruction in Princeton University That there is a modern point of view is denied by no one, if put as a general proposition...

...John B. Gabel Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible into Poetry . Edited by Sims James H. Ryken Leland . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1984 . Pp. xii , 212 . $19.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 io6 The South Atlantic Quarterly Milton...

...Charles W. Peppler Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Sinai Manuscript of the Bible Charles W. Peppker Professor of Greek in Trinity College The three oldest and best manuscripts of the Bible, the Sinaitic in St. Petersburg, the Vatican in Rome, and the Alexandrine...

...Lucius Hopkins Miller Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Authority of the Bible. By Lucius Hopkins Miller, Assistant Professor of Biblical Instruction in Princeton University. To the older generation of living men, brought up on literalistic views of the Bible, much of current...

...Wilbur F. Tillett Copyright © 1907 by Duke University Press 1907 The Bible and Modern Scholarship By Wilbur F. Tillett, Dean of Theological Department in Vanderbilt University The most important and interesting problems that are now occupying the minds of Christians are those pertaining...

...Edwin Mims Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII APRIL Number 2 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Bible Once More Edwin Mims Vanderbilt University The most comprehensive and illuminating survey of the facts and theories of modern science, and more especially of the theory...

...Orval Wintermute The Bible as Literature: An Introduction . By Gabel John B. Wheeler Charles B. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1985 . Pp. xiv , 278 . $19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 411 Devon ignores Poe...

...Charles B. Wheeler Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Professor Frye and the Bible Charles B. Wheeler La certidumbre de que todo esta escrito nos anula o nos afantasma. Borges, La Biblioteca de Babel In the firmament of contemporary literary criticism, no star has burned more...

...Charles B. Wheeler Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 But Where Did Cain Get His Wife? Reflections on Teaching the Bible as Literature Charles B. Wheeler Generations of American college students have encountered, some­ where along the bumpy road to the baccalaureate, a course...

...James H. Sims Swift’s Use of the Bible: A Documentation and a Study in Allusion . By Beaumont Charles Allen . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1965 . Pp. 68 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Book Reviews 551 conceiving ? Had not Stevens often...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. The Bible in Milton’s Epics . By Sims James H. . Gainesville : The University of Florida Press , 1962 . Pp. 283 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 BOOKS The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. By Robert D. Mayo. Evanston, Ill...

... examples of this: Jesus as friend, Jesus as lover.4 In my own research, among apostolic Christians in Zim- babwe, a similar desire for immediacy is expressed through a rejection of the Bible, with written texts being understood as literal barriers to the experience of a “live and direct...

... Falwell s Liberty Bible College and felt sure the Lord wanted me to plant a church. A former classmate suggested Durham. Mooneyham visited the area and felt a growing burden, a compassion for the area, and decided to come to Durham to plant his church. He knew no one in Durham when he arrived but used...

... Thomas Scopes, the local high­ school football coach and science teacher, accused of violating the state s anti-evolution statute. The town, in fact, assumed the appearance of a crowded carnival. Leather-lunged vendors of hot dogs and lemonade com­ peted with hawkers of Bibles, biological treatises...

... of the past and the present through dominant cate- gories and apprehensions of the Bible, vernacular frames and their distinct uses, ever bound to the one and the other. In front of scholarly niceties of ‘‘agency’’ and ‘‘resistance these terms of struggle and such making of meanings are terribly important...

... the evils of liquor. 19 Another reform activity in the late nineteenth century which attracted the attention of Virginia Baptists was the movement for woman s rights, especially woman suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared in the 1880 s that the Bible and the churches were the main obstacles to equality...

... terpreting the Bible, to the increasing feeling that it is to be read not slavishly according to the letter that killeth, but in the light of the spirit that giveth life. While the Christian religion had back of it centuries of preparation, still it is not a growth in the ordinary sense of the word...

.... 470 The South Atlantic Quarterly Some of them told of naked savages living in piety, virtue, and happiness, without priests, Bibles, or creeds. Along with the Noble Savage the Chinese Sage became the great critic of European faith and morals. In India and in China were found, or imagined, cities more...

... a century ago, many of the best educated men felt that science was about to tear up their deep-rooted ideas of the Christian faith, that it con­ tradicted the Holy Bible, and that it was the enemy of all mankind. Many were perturbed by the advent of the so-called discoveries of science, and numerous...