Acknowledgements.
General Introduction.
Biblical and Literary Criticism: A History of Interaction: Stephen Prickett.
Literary Readings of the Bible: Trends in Modern Criticism: David Jasper.
Part I:.
The Creation (Genesis 1-2): John Milton, Paradise Lost.
Book VII. Lines 205-216.
" The Spacious Firmament on High": Joseph Addison.
Biographia Literaria. Chapter XIII: S.T. Coleridge.
Choruses from The Rock (VII): T.S. Eliot.
D. H. Lawrence, " Let There be Light".
The Magician's Nephew: C.S. Lewis.
Part II:.
" In the Beginning was the Word" (John 1:1-18): Justin Martyr, Apology. .
Divine Sonnets. No. 4: John Donne.
Lectures on Revealed Religion. : S. T.Coleridge.
Faust, Part 1: Goethe.
The Morgan Maggiore: Lord Byron.
Collected Poems No. 1651 (" A Word Made Flesh is Seldom"): Emily Dickenson.
" In the Beginning was the Three-pointed Star": Dylan Thomas.
Of Grammatology: Jacques Derrida.
Part III:.
The Fall (Genesis 3:1-3):.
The City of God. " Adam Lay in Bondage": St. Augustine.
Paradise Lost,Book LX. Lines 655-792: John Milton.
Earl of Rochester, " The Fall": John Wilmot.
" The Tree of Knowledge": Abraham Cowley.
Free Fall: William Golding.
Part IV:.
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22:1-19): Pentateuch with Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth and Rashi's Commentary.
The City of God. 14th Century English Passion Play: Augustine.
Religio Medici: Sir Thomas Browne.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy.
Fear and Trembling: Soren Kierkegaard.
Letter of 1921: Franx Kafka.
" England, my England": D.H. Lawrence.
" The Parable of the Old Man and the Young": Wilfrid Owen.
Mimesis: Erich Auerbach.
Part V:.
Jacob and Esau (Genesis 27:15-35): The City of God: Augustine.
John Donne, Holy Sonnets: John Donne.
No. XI. Francis Quarles, " On Jacob's Purchase".
The Christian Year: John Keble.
Joseph and his Brothers: Thomas Mann.
Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie.
Part VI:.
Wrestling Jacob (Genesis 32:22-32): Izaak Walton, The Life of John Donne. .
" Wrestling Jacob": Charles Wesley.
" Jacob Wrestling with the Angel": Jones Very.
" Carrion Comfort": Gerald Manley Hopkins.
" A little east of Jordan", Collected Poems: Emily Dickenson. No. 59.
" Weeping we hold him fast tonight": Christina Rossetti.
" The Struggle with the Angel: Roland Barthes.
Son of Laughter: Frederick Beuchner.
Part VII: .
David and Bathsheba (II Samuel 11:1-13): George Peele, The Love of King David and Fair Bathsabe. .
The Prologue to Penitential Psalms: Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Absalom and Achitophel: John Dryden.
Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy.
The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne.
God Knows: Joseph Heller.
Bathsheba: Torgny Lindgren.
Part VIII: .
" The Still Small Voice" (I Kings 19:8-13): Dante, The Divine Comedy (Purgatory). .
" Living Flame of Love": St. John of the Cross.
The Christian Year: John Keble.
" Dear Lord and Father of Mankind": John Greenleaf Whittier.
The Surrender of a Cockney: G. K. Chesterton.
" A Successful Summer": David Schbert.
Part IX:.
The Lord is My Shepherd" (Psalm 23): Miles Coverdale, Psalm 23. .
Psalm 23: Thomas Sternhold.
Henry V: William Shakespeare.
Psalm 23: George Herbert.
Psalm 23: Richard Crashaw.
The Pilgrim's Progress: John Bunyan.
Psalm 23: Henry Williams Baker.
God Knows: Joseph Heller.
The Very Model of a Man: Howard Jacobson.
" Psalms":.
John Hollander.
Part X:.
" I am a Rose of Sharon" (The Song of Songs): Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love. .
Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer. (Robinson Edition).
" Colin Clout Comes Home Againe": Edmund Spenser.
The Doctrine and Discipline of Di'vorce, The Reason of Church Government, Paradise Lost: John Milton.
" The Garden": Andrew Marvell.
" In the Glorious Assumption of Our Blessed Lady": Richard Crashaw.
" The Reflexion": Edward Taylor.
The Name of the Rose: Umberto Eco.
Part XI:.
The Nativity (Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:1-19): " I sing of a maiden".
" Nativitie": John Donne.
" Anagram": George Herbert.
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: John Milton.
Charles Wesley, " Let Earth and Heaven Combine": Charles Wesley.
" A Christmas Carol": S. T. Coleridge.
" The Oxen": Thomas Hardy.
" Ave Maria Gratia Plena": Oscar Wilde.
" I saw a stable": Mary Elizabeth Coleridge.
" Mary and Gabriel": Rupert Brooke.
" The Journey of the Magi": T. S. Eliot.
" The Annunciation": Edward Muir.
Part XII: .
" The Problem of the Parables" (Mark 4:1-20): Frank Kermode, The Genesis of Secrecy. .
Isaiah 6:9-13. The Gospel of Thomas. .
The Rabbinic Parable (Midrash Wayyltra Rabbah) [Jerusalem, 1972].
The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer.
Sonnet XVII: John Milton.
The Pilgrim's Progress: John Bunyan. .
The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Christopher Smart.
" The Sower": William Cowper.
From Either/Or: Soren Kierkegaard.
" A Grammarian's Funeral": Robert Browning.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy.
The Violent Bear it Away: Flannery O'Connor.
The Trial: Franz Kafka.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings: Jorge Luis Borges.
Part XIII:.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (John 4:1-30): Genesis 24:10-14.
The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Faerie Queen: Edmund Spenser.
Silex Scintillans: Henry Vaughan.
The Parables of Our Lord.: Christopher Smart.
" I know where Wells grow": Emily Dickenson.
Unto This Last: John Ruskin.
Man and Superman: George Bernard Shaw.
The Last Temptation: Nikos Kazantzakis.
Jeshua: Moelwyn Merchant.
Part XIV: .
The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32).
" The Parson's Tale", from The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer.
" The Prodigal Son": John Newton.
The Excursion -- Lines 275-375: William Wordsworth.
" A Prodigal Son": Christina Rossetti.
" The Lake Isle of Innisfree: W. B. Yeats.
" The Prodigal Son": Robert Bly.
" The Prodigal": Elizabeth Bishop.
The Return of the Prodigal Son: Henri J. M. Nouwen.
Part XV:.
The Crucifixion (Mark 15:33-39): The Dream of the Rood. .
Stabat Mater Dolorosa. .
The Wakefield Crucifixion. .
Holy Sonnets, La Corona: John Donne.
" Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ": Isaac Watts.
Billy Budd, Sailor: Herman Melville.
" At a Calvary near the Ancre": Wilfrid Owen.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce.
" Canticle for Good Friday": Geoffrey Hill.
God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible: Stephen D. Moore.
Part XVI:.
Jesus and Mary in the Garden (John 20:10-18):.
The Apocryphal New Testament: M. R. James.
The Prayers and Meditations: St. Anselm. .
" Who so list to hount....": Sir Thomas Wyatt.
" Mary Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death": Robert Southwell.
Humphry Clinker: Tobais Smollett.
D H Lawrence, St. Mawr: D. H. Lawrence.
The Wild Girl: Michele Roberts.
Part XVII:.
The Conversion of St Paul (Acts of the Apostles 9:1-19): John Newton, " The Rebel's Surrender to Grace".
Confessions of a Justified Sinner: James Hogg.
Father and Son: Edmund Grosse.
The Wreck of the Deutschland: G. M. Hopkins.
The Hound of Heaven: Francis Thompson.
Memoirs of the Blind: Jacques Derrida.
Part XVIII:.
Alpha and Omega (Revelation 21:1-18): Prudentius Aurelius Clemens, Cathemerinon. " In dulci jubilo".
Paradise Lost: John Miltyon.
The Pilgrim's Progress: John Bunyan.
William Wordsworth, The Prelude: William Wordsworth.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë.
" The Last Chantrey": Rudyard Kipling.
Wallace Stevens, " An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": Wallace Stevens.
W H Auden, " Victor": W. H. Auden.
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Flannery O'Connor.
General Bibliography.
Name Index.
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