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Rethinking biblical literacy / edited by Katie Edwards.

Contributor(s): Edwards, Katie, 1974- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury, T & T Clark, 2015Description: x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780567050984; 056705098XSubject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Popular cultureDDC classification: 220.09/051 LOC classification: BS511.3 | .R4685 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Located literacies. Biblical literacy: the Irish situation / Máire Byrne -- What the Bible really means: biblical literacy in English political discourse / James G. Crossley -- The quest for biblical literacy: curricula, culture and case studies / Iona Hine -- Visual literacies. Loss of the Bible and the Bible in Lost: biblical literacy and mainstream television / Matthew A. Collins -- Streetwise about the Bible: unexpected allusions (to the text) in unusual places / Amanda Dillon -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary: Eve as redemptrix in Madonna's 'Girl gone wild' / Alan W. Hooker -- Biblical literacy and The Simpsons / Robert J. Myles -- Popular literacies. Lisbeth and Leviticus: biblical literacy and The girl with the dragon tattoo / Caroline Blyth -- A big room for poo: Eddie Izzard's Bible and the literacy of laughter / Christopher Meredith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Located literacies. Biblical literacy: the Irish situation / Máire Byrne -- What the Bible really means: biblical literacy in English political discourse / James G. Crossley -- The quest for biblical literacy: curricula, culture and case studies / Iona Hine -- Part 2. Visual literacies. Loss of the Bible and the Bible in Lost: biblical literacy and mainstream television / Matthew A. Collins -- Streetwise about the Bible: unexpected allusions (to the text) in unusual places / Amanda Dillon -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary: Eve as redemptrix in Madonna's 'Girl gone wild' / Alan W. Hooker -- Biblical literacy and The Simpsons / Robert J. Myles -- Part 3. Popular literacies. Lisbeth and Leviticus: biblical literacy and The girl with the dragon tattoo / Caroline Blyth -- A big room for poo: Eddie Izzard's Bible and the literacy of laughter / Christopher Meredith.

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