A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture

by Yvonne Sherwood

Book Overview

This book charts the mutations of the book of Jonah as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. This book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from Mainstream to Backwater...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521795613
• ISBN13: 9780521795616
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"