Communion - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385474830 ISBN 13: 9780385474832

Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of original essays considers the role of the Christian Bible in each of the writers' lives and includes the works of such figures as Joyce Carol Oates, Kathleen Norris, David Bradley, and Michael Dorris.

About this title

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author David Rosenberg (The Book of J, written with Harold Bloom) has used his penetrating insight and ecumenical scholarship to bring together a spirited congregation of our most interesting, provocative and beloved literary writers to explore the Christian bible--the Old and New Testaments--in their lives. In a dazzling collection of original essays that are by turns illuminating, reflective, deeply personal and always revealing, writers as diverse as Joyce Carol Oates and Kathleen Norris, David Bradley and Michael Dorris, search out the literary traditions and spiritual meanings of specific books of the Bible-from Genesis to Ecclesiastes, from the Gospel According to Saint Matthew to the Gospel According to John-and examine how they conflict with, challenge, contradict or elucidate their work, their inner lives and the world around them. Entitled Communion, the collection embraces writers from a wide variety of (primarily) Christian backgrounds; some remain deeply religiou

Edition details

• Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385474830
• ISBN 13: 9780385474832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 547
• Editor: Rosenberg David