...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...

...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...

... and full. Next time a mob attacks a jail in North Carolina blood will flow. After that the Law will ride on prosperously in this Common­ wealth. J. W. Bailey, Editor of the Biblical Recorder. ...

... shelves of biblical critique without looking back. On one reading, Paul emerges in each of these texts as the unhailed hero of his own story, each story reflecting uncannily their authors' own commitments and absorptions. But, of course, the fascination with Paul is more than a narcissistic indulgence...

... BRINKMEYER The Bible as Literature: An Introduction. By John B. Gabel and Charles B. Wheeler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 278. $19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper. The present volume is a worthy addition to the textbooks designed to ini­ tiate undergraduates in the academic study of Biblical...

... a Christian for granted. He would certainly have had an ear for the ca­ dences of biblical prose. He would be a professor of English, because English was the only language in which the Bible was accessible to his students, and the English department was the obvious place for general literary studies. In any...

.... Regrettably, Mr. Beaumont follows no consistent principles in analyzing Swift s uses of the Bible. For example, a brief biblical phrase, uncover d vessel, is extended to apply to a fanatic preacher in A Tale of A Tub, though it clearly applies only to the pulpit in context; yet biblical phrases in an early...

..., it seems so only because Milton s poems, even in the more popular editions, are usually well supplied with notes that call attention to his use of the Bible and Biblical commentary. The very frequency of such notes, suggesting as it does the dutiful recognition of still another area of Milton s incredible...

... as Literature: An Introduction. By John B. Gabel and Charles B. Wheeler. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 278. $19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper. The present volume is a worthy addition to the textbooks designed to ini­ tiate undergraduates in the academic study of Biblical literature. Its clarity...

... readers have the background in biblical studies and literary criticism to judge its arguments properly. Those familiar with Frye s other work know his peculiar addiction to the number four and will not be surprised to meet it again here. The Great Code is organized as a double quaternion, with four...

... of the subject s own words. Although the volume in content is exceedingly creditable, one cannot but regret that its form is not in accord instead of being an unusually poor and unattractive piece of book making. J. G. di; Roulhac Hamilton. University of North Carolina. 290 The South Atlantic Quarterly Biblical...

...- ber the events of that day spurred a new interest in the books and the larger field of biblical prophecy. For many fundamentalists in the United States, the terrorist attacks were more than simply horrific political crisis...

... examines Melville s work for his predilections: biblical archetypes, for exam­ ple, and images of clinging, consuming, gestating, and, above all, incorporating. What Mr. Miller appears finally to have accomplished, however, is the rediscovery that Melville s writings reflect certain biographical facts...

... elected representatives who are to represent their constituents based on their platform and how they were elected. Tri-City is governed by a four-member board of deacons with Mooneyham as chairman. I view myself, in the biblical sense, as being the overseer of the affairs of the church...

...Stephen A. Barney Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Stephen A. Barney Ordo paginis: The Gloss on Genesis 38 ^Ris examination of some kinds of commen­ tary on the Bible depends, like the commen­ taries themselves, on the biblical text. Here is the Douai translation of the Latin...

... what resonance easternness has in the He­ brew Bible, specifically in the strangely compelling first twenty-five chapters ofthe Book of Genesis.6 Here, in a necessarily sketchy and incomplete fash­ ion-little more than the plowing before seedtime I want to focus on the two biblical characters whose...

... loudly when Samson adds that Dalila turned him out ridiculous, despoil d,/Shav n, and disarm d among my enemies (539-40). Despoiling and disarming are plainly unknightly disgrace; and shav n, used with despoil d and dis­ grac d, is probably to be read in chivalric as well as biblical con­ text...

... in the British Museum in London, are of so much importance for Biblical criticism that scholars are anxious to get all the evidence they afford, and hence are not satisfied with editions in common type simply, but desire further an exact knowledge of the appear­ ance of the manuscripts even to the minutest...

... they would not be permitted to speak.7 If the Council fathers were not interested in the question of women s ordination, however, scholars were. In the years after Vatican II, theologians, canon lawyers, and biblical critics all interrogated the tradition and found no persuasive reason why women should...

... this resource ( musical assonance and with the most delicate and mysterious power. And this is no doubt due to his mind being saturated with the harmonies of our English Bible, and to his speaking to us with religious solem­ nity and in Biblical tones. To one whose ear has become sensitive to Biblical rhythm...