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Melvilles Bibles.
Traces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Playing with Leviathan: Job and the Aesthetic Turn in Biblical Exegesis; "Jonah Historically Regarded": Improvisations on Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature; "Call Me Ishmael": The Bible and the Orient; Ahab, Idolatry, and the Question of Possession: Biblical Politics; Rachel's Inconsolable Cry: The Rise of Women's Bibles; Epilogue; Notes; Index.