The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry by Lena-S... - 9781032248356

The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and PoetryAuthor(s): Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032248356, 978-1032248356\nSynopsis\nThis book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.\n\nThe chapters, written by an international group of scholars, explore biblical retellings in a variety of modern languages, ranging from Korean and Chinese to Hebrew and Arabic. Most of the contributions deal with retellings of the narrative books (Genesis, Exodus, Judges, Ruth, 12 Samuel, Daniel), but a few are devoted to prophetic (Hosea) and poetic (Psalms) ones. Another set of articles looks beyond specific biblical books and instead analyses how the Bible has .