Melville's Bibles

by Ilana Pardes

Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520254554
• ISBN13: 9780520254558
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"