The New Testament and the Literary Imagination

✍ Scribed by David Jasper (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Leaves: 124
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Attending to the Text....Pages 1-9
The Sense of History....Pages 11-26
Imagination and Metaphor....Pages 27-42
The Story Told....Pages 43-58
Holding to the Tradition....Pages 59-71
Proverbial Wisdom....Pages 73-82
Fictions and Fantasy....Pages 83-96
Conclusion: The New Testament and the Literary Critic....Pages 97-102
Back Matter....Pages 103-111

✦ Subjects

Biblical Studies

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