A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University 2009Description: 321pISBN:- 9780521795616
- BC47 SH583
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BC47 K331 Jonah | BC47 P429 The Honeymoon Is Over | BC47 R545 Jonah | BC47 SH583 A Biblical Text and Its Afterlives | BC47 T483 A Gracious and Compassionate God | BC47 T731 Rhetorical Criticism | BC47 Y881 Jonah |
includes index and biblioraphy
1. The Mainstream ......9 Jonah and the Fathers: Jonah and Jesus as Typological Twins ...........11 Jonah the jew: The Evolution of a Biblical Character .......21 Divine disciplinary devices: Or the Book of Jonah as a Tractate on Producing docile disciple-Bodies ..........32 Cataloguing the Monstrous: Jonah and the Cani Cacharis .........42 Taking stock : Survivals, Hauntings, Jonah and fish , and the Christian colonisation of the book of Jonah........48 2. Backwaters and underbellies .......88 Jewish interpretation ....97 Popular interpretation ........137 On the Strained relations between the Backwaters and the mainstream : or how Jewish and popular Readings are prone to bring on a bout of Scholarly dyspepsia ........176 Of Survival, memes, and life-after-death: on Jonah`s Infinite regurgitation and endless survival.......196 Jonah on the Oncology ward and the beached - up whale carcass: or the strange secular afterlives of Biblical Texts .....201 3. Regurgitating Jonah ...210 Of hot chestnuts, fluid pudings, and plots that do not shelter us: Some ruminations on the salvific properties of the Bible and Literature .......210 Regurgitating Jonah........239 In Conclusion....Salvaging Jonah : The book of Jonah as the Quintessential story and the most typical of Biblical Texts ...........280
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