The Bible in crime fiction and drama: murderous texts

"The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama b...

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Contributors: Jack, Alison M. (Editor) ; Blyth, Caroline 1967- (Editor) ; McIlvanney, Liam (Author of afterword, colophon, etc.)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London, England Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
In: Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible (16)
Year: 2019
Reviews:[Rezension von: The Bible in crime fiction and drama : murderous texts] (2020) (Grafius, Brandon R.)
[Rezension von: The Bible in crime fiction and drama : murderous texts] (2021) (Barton, John, 1948 -)
[Rezension von: The Bible in crime fiction and drama : murderous texts] (2019) (Laird, Stephen)
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible 16
Library of Hebrew bible/Old Testament studies Old Testament studies 678
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bible / Reception / Crime stories / Crime film
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
Further subjects:B Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
B Bible Influence
B Popular culture ; Religious aspects
B Popular Culture Religious aspects
B Bible
B Detective and mystery stories
B Arts and religion
B Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Detective and mystery stories History and criticism
B Bible and literature
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Summary:"The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney. These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce - cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text - its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture"--back cover
Introduction / Caroline Blyth and Alison Jack -- On the trail of a biblical serial killer: Sherlock Holmes and the book of Tobit / Matthew A. Collins -- Tartan noir and sacred Scripture: the Bible as artefact and metanarrative in Peter May's Lewis trilogy / Alison Jack -- Faith in a cold climate: the Bible and violence in Henning Mankell's before the frost / Caroline Blyth -- "Understanded of the people": C.J. Sansom's Revelation as a contemporary cautionary tale / Suzanne Bray -- Where have all the good men gone? Male antiheroes in the Book of Judges and American television / Benjamin Bixler -- "Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light": serial murder as homily in Se7en / James C. Oleson -- "The man who died" : reading death in Job with Finnish noir / Yael Klangwisan -- The divine unsub: television crime procedurals and biblical sexual violence / Dan W. Clanton, Jr -- Poirot, the bourgeois prophet: Agatha Christie's biblical adaptations / Hannah M. Strømmen -- "A dangerous world": the hermeneutics of Agatha Christie's later novels / J.C. Bernthal.
Item Description:Includes biographical information on contributors
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0567678008
Access:Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9780567678003