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Author:   Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.860kg
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9781032248356

ISBN 10:   1032248351
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction – Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer; 1. The Flood Narrative in Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Denae Dyck; 2. Before the Dragon’s Inverted Scales: Reading the Sodom Narrative in Genesis with its Retelling Stories, Soo Kim Sweeney; 3. She Chose to Turn: Lot’s Wife as Sodom’s Witness in Contemporary Literature, Katherine Low; 4. Sad and Beautiful: Sarah’s Laughter in Itzik Manger and Other Modern Poetry, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche; 5. ‘Ah gots daughtuh, an’she gots daughtuh’: Hagar and Her Offspring in Three Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Reincarnations of her Biblical Original, Kathryn Walls; 6. Seeing, Connection and Visibility in Margaret Atwood’s and the Bible’s Handmaids’ Tales, Jo Carruthers; 7. Seeing Red: The Elision of Gender-based Violence in Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, Caroline Blyth; 8. ‘The sire, to whom I must make love’: Judah’s Afterlives in Modern Literature, Eric Ziolkowski; 9. Joseph and His Brothers in Twentieth Century Literature, Bradley C. Gregory; 10. Moses as a Leader in Twentieth Century Literature, Stuart Lasine; 11. Samson, Brian Britt; 12. A Different Kind of Harvest: Contemporary Women Novelists Respond to Ruth, Mary F. Brewer; 13. Bathsheba: Innocent Victim or Cunning Schemer?, Hugh Pyper; 14. Reimagining Abishag: Retelling Her Story,Thea Gomelauri; 15. Reception of Daniel in Novels, Jason M. Silverman; 16. Hosea, Kirsi Cobb; 17. Singing Scripture: On the Reception of Psalms in Contemporary Praise & Worship Lyrics, David Davage; 18. Of Siblings and Soccer, Lions and Lobsters: Retellings of Biblical Stories in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Ina Döttinger; 19. Biblical Retellings in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, Marian Kelsey; 20. Retellings and Political Discourse, Kyu Seop Kim; 21. The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba, Ceri Deosun.

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Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer is Professor in Old Testament Exegesis at ALT School of Theology, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scripture, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has published several monographs and edited volumes on Isaiah and Zechariah, a reception-historical commentary on Jonah (Jonah through the Centuries, 2021), as well as a monograph devoted to Jonathan in modern literature (In Search of Jonathan, 2022).

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