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The Divine Drama: The Old Testament as Literature
John Dancy
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Description for The Divine Drama: The Old Testament as Literature
Paperback. This masterly work aims to restore the literature of the Bible to a general readership, combining insightful commentary with extracts from the Old Testament chosen for their artistic and dramatic interest. Num Pages: 800 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1114.
The Bible, as is often said, is the world's least-read bestseller. That is particularly true of the Old Testament. People are often put off by the sheer bulk of the material and its frequently undistinguished quality. John Dancy has selected large samples from most of the canonical and apocryphal books, amounting to just under a third of the total, chosen for artistic merit and intrinsic interest rather than for representative status or theological value. Literature of this stature, he says, should not be restricted to academics and believers. To make it more approachable, the text is presented with commentary on ... Read more
The Bible, as is often said, is the world's least-read bestseller. That is particularly true of the Old Testament. People are often put off by the sheer bulk of the material and its frequently undistinguished quality. John Dancy has selected large samples from most of the canonical and apocryphal books, amounting to just under a third of the total, chosen for artistic merit and intrinsic interest rather than for representative status or theological value. Literature of this stature, he says, should not be restricted to academics and believers. To make it more approachable, the text is presented with commentary on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
1114 g
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718829872
SKU
V9780718829872
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About John Dancy
John Dancy is a classicist by training and a teacher by trade. He has been Master of Marlborough College, Principal of St Luke's College of Education at Exeter and Professor of Education at Exeter University. Among his previous publications are commentaries on 1 Maccabees and on the shorter books of the Apocrypha and an admired biography of Sir Walter Oakeshott ... Read more
Reviews for The Divine Drama: The Old Testament as Literature
The comments which accompany the individual extracts are admirably clear and pack a good deal of information and insight into a comparatively brief compass...The non-specialist reader will be greatly enlightened by the introductory sections on the Hebrew language, Hebrew storytelling and Hebrew poetry. Two appendices set the Old Testament in its earliest literary contexts, the Ancient Near East and Greek ... Read more