The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature

Book Overview

This Companion volume offers a sweeping survey of the Bible as a work of literature and its impact on Western writing. Underscoring the sophistication of the biblical writers' thinking in diverse areas of thought, it demonstrates how the Bible relates to many types of knowledge and its immense contribution to education through the ages. The volume emphasizes selected texts chosen from different books of the Bible and from later Western writers inspired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108435246
• ISBN13: 9781108435246
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"