An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text. By Hugh S. Pyper
This learned, provocative and often witty and entertaining book consists of eleven essays labelled ‘chapters,’ of which the first constitutes the ‘Introduction,’ and seven others appear in various forms in earlier publications from 1994 to 2003. Of these seven chapters, one is drawn from two separat...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 439-440 |
| Review of: | An unsuitable book (Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005) (Ziolkowski, Eric)
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| Summary: | This learned, provocative and often witty and entertaining book consists of eleven essays labelled ‘chapters,’ of which the first constitutes the ‘Introduction,’ and seven others appear in various forms in earlier publications from 1994 to 2003. Of these seven chapters, one is drawn from two separately published articles, five are revisions of singly published articles and another appears here under a new title. Derived from Kierkegaard, whose influence avowedly ‘pervades this book,’ the thematic thread that runs through and unifies the disparate parts is the assumption, announced in the ‘Introduction,’ that ‘We should be scandalized by the Bible—only then … is there any chance that we might be taking it seriously’ (2). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm041 |