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Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

Sustaining Fictions

Intertextuality, Midrash, Translation, and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible

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Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I and II, offering an upright and virtuous king devoid of baser instincts. This literary phenomenon is not contained to inner-biblical exegesis. Once the telling becomes known, the retellings begin: through the New Testament, rabbinic midrash, medieval mystery plays, medieval and Renaissance poetry, nineteenth century novels, and contemporary literatu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-567-53645-7
  • EAN: 9780567536457
  • Produktnummer: 29846059
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 6'762 KB
  • Abbildungen: 1 illus

Über den Autor


Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg is Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Associate Professor in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Colgate University,USA. She is author of Sustaining Fiction: Midrash, Intertextuality, Translation and the Literary Afterlife of the Bible, as well as articles on the Bible in literature and contemporary culture.

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