The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters

by TerryR.Wright (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $142.66

  Considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis , especially those noted by rabbinic midrash.