...preeminent share of what Eric Auerbach has called the "tyrannical" character of biblical literature: The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied...reality — it insists that it is the only real world, [and] is destined for autocracy. . . . The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor,...

...Auerbach said forty years ago, when he contrasted the Bible's mode of narration with that of Homer: The Bible's claim to truth is not only far more urgent...reality - it insists that it is the only real world .... The Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favour, they do not flatter us that they...

...allegorical readers find themselves in a place—in a culture—that is not yet their own. Afterword The Bible's claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer's, it is tyrannical—it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with...

...What Auerbach says of the epistemological authority of the Bible, hence, applies to The Double Hook: The Bible's claim to truth is not only far more urgent...is the only real world, is destined for autocracy ... Scripture stories do not, like Homer's, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please...

...konsequente Entfaltung der biblischen Theologie," Svensk Exegetish Arsbok (Lund: CWK Gleerup, 1979), 77-114. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied...reality — it insists that it is the only real world, [it] is destined for autocracy. All other scenes, issues, and ordinances have no right to appear independently...

...more importantly, the narratives disclose a world that makes an absolute, tyrannical claim upon us: 'it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy.' We are to be either its subjects or rebels. 'Far from seeking, like Homer, merely to make us forget...

...an ideological instrument). According to Erich Auerbach, the Bible's claim to truth is "tyrannical": "The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied...is the only real world, is destined for autocracy. . . . The Scripture stories . . . seek to subject us."104 If Auerbachs assessment is right, must we...

...Mercersburg. In Nevin's view, the Incarnation is the story which, to use the words of Eric Auerbach, "is not satisfied with claiming to be a historically...autocracy. All other scenes, issues, and ordinances . . . will be given their due place within its frame. . . . Far from seeking like Homer, merely to...

...crucially, the biblical narratives disclose a world that makes an absolute, tyrannical claim upon us: "it insists that it is the only real world, is destined for autocracy." The demand of the Holy Scripture is that of an all-consuming communal text that engulfs the whole of...

...arguments later made by Auerbach that mythic stories exercise a tyrannical hold over mundane experience: "The Bible's claim to truth is not only far more urgent than Homer's, it is tyrannical-it excludes all other claims. The world of the Scripture stories is not satisfied with claiming...