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
how, while formal religion declined, the prestige of the Bible as a
literary and aesthetic model rose to new heights: not merely was
English, German and French Romanticism steeped in biblical
references of a new kind, but hermeneutics and, increasingly,
theories of literature and criticism were biblically derived.
Professor Prickett reveals how the Romantic Bible became
simultaneously a novel-like narrative work, an on-going site of
re-interpretation, and an all-embracing literary form giving
meaning to all other writing.
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