The Bible in crime fiction and drama : murderous texts / edited by Caroline Blyth and Alison Jack ; with an afterword by Liam McIlvanney.
Contributor(s): Blyth, Caroline [editor.]
| Jack, Alison M [editor.] | McIlvanney, Liam [writer of afterword.]
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TextSeries: Scriptural traces: 16.; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies: 678.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies: Publisher: London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0567677982; 9780567677983Subject(s): Bible -- Influence | Bible and literature | Popular culture -- Religious aspects | Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism | Arts and religionBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 East | BS538.7 .B535 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903534176 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Caroline Blyth and Alison Jack -- On the trail of a biblical serial killer: Sherlock Holmes and the book of Tobit / Matthew A. Collins -- Tartan noir and sacred Scripture: the Bible as artefact and metanarrative in Peter May's Lewis trilogy / Alison Jack -- Faith in a cold climate: the Bible and violence in Henning Mankell's before the frost / Caroline Blyth -- "Understanded of the people": C.J. Sansom's Revelation as a contemporary cautionary tale / Suzanne Bray -- Where have all the good men gone? Male antiheroes in the Book of Judges and American television / Benjamin Bixler -- "Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light": serial murder as homily in Se7en / James C. Oleson -- "The man who died" : reading death in Job with Finnish noir / Yael Klangwisan -- The divine unsub: television crime procedurals and biblical sexual violence / Dan W. Clanton, Jr. -- Poirot, the bourgeois prophet: Agatha Christie's biblical adaptations / Hannah M. Strømmen -- "A dangerous world": the hermeneutics of Agatha Christie's later novels / J.C. Bernthal.