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This book charts the mutations of a particularly buoyant sliver of Bible text - the book of Jonah - as it latches onto Christian and Jewish motifs and anxieties, passes through highbrow and lowbrow culture, and finally becomes something of a scavenger among the ruins, as, in its most resourceful move to date, it begins to live off the demise of faith. Written at a point between Cultural Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature and Art, this book is concerned with those versions of the biblical that escape proper disciplinary boundaries: it shifts the focus from 'Mainstream' to 'Backwater' interpretation. It is less a navigation of interpretative history and more an interrogation of larger political/cultural issues: anti-Judaism in Biblical Studies, the secularisation of the Bible, and the projection of the Bible as credulous ingenu, naive Other to our savvy post-Enlightenment selves.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Biblical Text and its Afterlives
• Subtitle: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
• Author: Yvonne Sherwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 354
• EAN: 9780521791748
• ISBN: 052179174X
• ID: 02043444
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 679 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. January 2001

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