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The Biblical Web (Paperback)
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The Biblical Web (Paperback)
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The Bible is the most familiar text of Western culture, and the
most ancient. The Bible constitutes the largest element of our
collective inheritance the vast web of meanings and metaphors in
which we envision ourselves, our lives, and our culture. But is a
purely literary study of the Bible possible? Ruth apRoberts argues
that the answer is a decided yes in The Biblical Web. These lively
and varied essays suggest that, even aside from its religious
significance, the Bible has had a profound literary impact on
Western culture. The author employs literary-critical methods to
examine language, metaphor, translations, and levels of literary
interpretation in the Bible. These methods allow us to see the
language of the Bible as the prologue to religious interpretations.
The essays cover a wide array of topics in Biblical study but are
united in their focus on the particular distinction and power of
the English translation and its resonances in Western literature.
Topics such as the translation of Hebrew poetry gain immeasurably
by apRoberts's new and important insights. She investigates the
historical content of the best-known anthology of biblical
quotations, the often-sung but rarely analyzed text of Handel's
Messiah. The essay on the Book of Job as a Goedelian paradigm
presents an original reading of that inexhaustible text, and
another essay provides a study of England's great Bible critic,
Robert Lowth. The final essay traces some little-known aspects and
echoes of the Bible in English, from Matthew Arnold's edition of
Isaiah to the poetry of A. E. Housman and G. M. Hopkins. The
Biblical Web presents the Bible not as religious doctrine but as a
text that is wonderfully varied, inconsistent, and frequently
distinguished by great literary art. The Bible, she reminds us, is
amassed out of translations, and translations and modifications of
translations; it is a text that has metamorphosed countless times,
and yet endures as a basis of western culture.
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