A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature"Offering an extraordinary window on centuries of dialogue between the Bible and literature, this superb, unprecedented, and award-winning reference work is designed to help the modern reader understand how biblical motifs, concepts, names, quotations and allusions have been transmitted through exegetical tradition and used by authors of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The book includes several hundred encyclopedic articles (more than a million words) written by a distinguished international roster of more than 160 contributors representing the disciplines of biblical studies, theology, patristics, and literary studies."-- |
Contents
A DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL TRADITION | 535 |
A Guide to Biblical Studies for the Student of Literature | 859 |
A Select List | 871 |
Introduction | 883 |
Historical Studies in Biblical Hermeneutics | 889 |
A Checklist of Biblical Commentaries Available to English Authors | 901 |
A Checklist of Bibliographies of Patristic Medieval | 912 |
Biblical Tradition in English Literature | 927 |
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A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature David Lyle Jeffrey No preview available - 1992 |
Common terms and phrases
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