Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions - Incarnation, Narrative, and Ethics--Essays in Honor of David Lyle Jeffrey (Hardcover)

For more than four decades, David Lyle Jeffrey has enriched the world of Christian scholarship. Throughout his work, Jeffrey has drawn attention to the ways in which imaginative engagements with biblical texts have been central to major shifts in Christian and post-Christian hermeneutics, ethics, and aesthetics. The purpose of this volume is to challenge and deepen that growing discourse by showing how English literature across varied traditions unfolds a central Christian interaction between divine Incarnation, invented narrative, and ethical praxis. In their essays, the authors demonstrate how an imaginative engagement with biblical narratives, in historical or contemporary writing, continues to provide a fruitful means to address the intellectual and ethical antinomies of the postmodern scene. The articles in this collection form two groups: the first set of essays focuses on specific episodes or moments of historical change within European biblical literary traditions; the second group focuses on the dissemination of biblical literary engagements in areas outside of European contexts, ranging from North America to South Africa to China. Unique in the wide range of topics it covers-itself a reflection of Jeffrey's own broad scope of scholarship-the collection functions as a working example of Jeffrey's thesis that the biblical tradition has a far-reaching influence on the development of Western literature, even by those who are reluctant to acknowledge its present influence.

General

Imprint:	University of Notre Dame Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Notre Dame Studies in Ethics and Culture
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	2014
Editors:	D.H. Williams • Phillip J Donnelly
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-268-04428-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > The Bible > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > Practical & applied ethics Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > The Bible > General Books > Christianity > The Bible
LSN:	0-268-04428-7
Barcode:	9780268044282

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