Dante's Testaments : Essays in Scriptural Imagination

Peter S Hawkins

ISBN 10: 0804734925 / ISBN 13: 9780804734929

Published by Stanford University Press Nov 1999, 1999

About this Item

Neuware - 'Surely Hawkins's contribution . . . will stand as one of the offerings most deserving of the laurel wreath the poet himself desired. As one who has regularly led seminarians on Dante's pilgrimage for over twenty-five years, the adjectives that kept recurring as I read Dante's Testaments were: erudite, engrossing, and elegant.'--Anglican Theological Review 'This is a book written from deep love of Dante and an equally deep learning. . . . A beautifully written book, accessible to the general reader, but fascinating and insightful for the scholar, both literary and theological.'--Theological Book Review.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dante's Testaments : Essays in Scriptural Imagination
• Publisher: Stanford University Press Nov 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804734925
• ISBN 13: 9780804734929
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This book explores the wide range of Dante's reading and the extent to which he transformed what he read, whether in the biblical canon, in the ancient Latin poets, in such Christian authorities as Augustine or Benedict, or in the "book of the world"-the globe traversed by pilgrims and navigators.

About the Author

Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at the Yale Divinity School. He is the author of books on ineffability, the image of the city, and American fiction, as well as editor (with Rachel Jacoff) of a forthcoming collection of essays, The Poet's Dante.