Bob Dylan has had a profound influence on the shape of modern pop
music (folk, rock, blues). As a modern literary figure, he has also
attracted enormous attention from both professional and amateur
"interpreters." Although articles about Dylan's religious
beliefs--born Jewish, Dylan converted to Christianity but then
moved quickly away from the Christian faith--there has never been a
book devoted to Dylan's use of scripture in his lyrics. Gilmour
offers a thorough study of Dylan's reading of scripture in this
book. He explores the ways that Dylan transforms biblical images
and concepts when he incorporates them into his literary world; it
is an attempt to listen to the echoes of scripture in Dylan's
published works. Gilmour closely reads Dylan's poems and songs and
provides commentaries on several themes found in Dylan's work: the
Sermon on the Mount and Jesus; apocalypse, judgment, and justice;
oppressive religion and religious irony. Through these readings,
Gilmour suggests the various ways in which Dylan uses scripture
both in an explicit and an implicit manner.
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