Origins of Narrative: The Romantic Appropriation of the Bible

by Stephen Prickett

Book Overview

During the late eighteenth century the Bible underwent a shift in interpretation so radical as to make it virtually a different book from what it had been a hundred years earlier. Even as its text was being revealed as neither stable nor original, the new notion of the Bible as a cultural artefact became a paradigm for all literature. In Origins of Narrative one of the world's leading scholars in biblical interpretation, criticism and theory describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521021383
• ISBN13: 9780521021388
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"