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The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and the Bible
Maggi Dawn
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Description for The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and the Bible
Paperback. How well do you know the Bible? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRCF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 194 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
In an increasingly secularised society, the average person is unlikely to have a working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - is built on Christian concepts and biblical references. THE WRITING ON THE WALL provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives the full text of a story from the Bible and explains its original significance, then shows how this ... Read more
In an increasingly secularised society, the average person is unlikely to have a working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - is built on Christian concepts and biblical references. THE WRITING ON THE WALL provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives the full text of a story from the Bible and explains its original significance, then shows how this ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
189g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340980040
SKU
V9780340980040
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99-10
About Maggi Dawn
After spending a number of years working as a singer, writer and musician in the field of contemporary music, Maggi Dawn was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1999. Having been Chaplain and Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge, she is now Dean of Marquand Chapel and Associate Professor at Yale Divinity School. An occasional broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 Religion, ... Read more
Reviews for The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and the Bible
This is no mean feat ... a treasure trove ... extremely readable.
Evangelicals Now
Written in a lively and readable style by the multi-talented Dawn...certain to open up her writing to a whole new audience.
Church Times
Evangelicals Now
Written in a lively and readable style by the multi-talented Dawn...certain to open up her writing to a whole new audience.
Church Times