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This volume explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Composed of essays by fifteen leading scholars of biblical poetry, it offers creative and insightful close readings of poems from across the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (Psalms, wisdom poetry, Song of Songs, prophecy, and poetry in biblical narrative). The essays build on recent advances in our understanding of biblical poetry and engage a variety of theoretical perspectives and current trends in the study of literature.

The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology is a defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology. The volume first offers a chronological account of key moments in the formation of the tradition; goes on to demonstrate literary ways of reading the Bible, theological ways of reading literature, and literary conceptions of theological texts; and finally, explores the great themes that have preoccupied the Jewish and Christian traditions. (From Publisher's Description)

How can we read the Bible? / David Jasper.-- 'Get thee behind me, Satan': on resisiting fishy models of reading / Terrence R. Wright.-- Orality, literacy and the idea of the spiritual / Stephen Prickett.-- Reading as doxology in St Augustine / Graham Ward.-- From exile to pilgrim: Christian and Pagan values in Anglo-Saxon elegiac verse / Graham Holderness.-- Chaucerian ethics: the spaces of dialogue / Norman Klassen.-- 'How it might have been to believe': re-imaging the social body in contemporary productions of the English mystery plays / Susanne Greenhalgh.-- The Cloud of Unknowing in dialogue with postmodernism / Nike Kocijancic Pokorn.-- 'Slanderous tongues': Shakespearean mimesis and virtue ethics in Much Ado About Nothing / Daniel N. Beauregard.-- John Donne and the theology of incarnation / J. Mark Halstead.-- Johnson's cosmology: vacuity and ramification / Philip Davis.-- Ruskin's Christian theory of art / Michael Wheeler.-- 'Naming our host': eucharist and apocalypse in The Time Machine / Kevin Mills.--
Reconsidering Phlebas: faith in the life and work of T.S. Eliot / Christopher Southgate.-- Chesterton and Father Brown: demystification and deconstruction / SEE Catalog entry for full contents list!