The Genesis of Fiction: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters. By Terry R. Wright
Maria Matilda Penstone's children's hymn still sung in nonconformist Sunday Schools in the 1960s – , God has given us a book full of stories, that was made for his people of old., It begins with the tale of a garden, and ends with the city of gold., – was intended to point us to the ‘best’...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 501-503 |
| Review of: | The Genesis of fiction (Aldershot, England [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2007) (Dickinson, David)
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| Summary: | Maria Matilda Penstone's children's hymn still sung in nonconformist Sunday Schools in the 1960s – , God has given us a book full of stories, that was made for his people of old., It begins with the tale of a garden, and ends with the city of gold., – was intended to point us to the ‘best’ and ‘most beautiful story of all’, that of Jesus. Its effect was sometimes less specifically Christocentric: a lasting appreciation of the bible as a book of stories worth reading. That the bible remains a book worth reading is the simplest and most important conclusion of this study of six novelists who have retold narratives from the Book of Genesis. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn048 |