The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 1860–1920 Stevens Hardback

The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination 18601920Author(s): Jennifer Stevens\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846314704, 978-1846314704\nSynopsis\nAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\n\nFictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of todays Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary wor.