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The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]
The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]

The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]

著者: 
Kyle Keefer
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ゼウス、エウローペー、ディアーナ、パーン、そしてプロメーテウス…古代ギリシアとローマの神話は時を超え、私たちに影響を及ぼすようです。その神話は何を表し、なぜ永続的な魅力を持ち続けることができるのでしょうか。本書は単に神話の物語をなぞることに終始せず、その豊かな歴史、優れた芸術とポップカルチャーの両面からの解釈を用いて古代神話を探る、想像力をかきたてる一冊です。(cf. The New Testament, #229)
     

  • A crisp, stimulating introduction to the New Testament as a work of literature, balancing literary analysis and theological insight

  
The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this relatively small group of twenty-seven works, written during the height of the Roman Empire, not only helped create and sustain a vast world religion, but also have been integral to the larger cultural dynamics of the West, above and beyond particular religious expressions.
 
Looking at the New Testament through the lens of literary study, Kyle Keefer offers an engrossing exploration of this revered religious text as a work of literature, but also keeps in focus its theological ramifications. Unique among books that examine the Bible as literature, this brilliantly compact introduction offers an intriguing double-edged look at this universal text—a religiously informed literary analysis. The book first explores the major sections of the New Testament—the gospels, Paul's letters, and Revelation—as individual literary documents. Keefer shows how, in such familiar stories as the parable of the Good Samaritan, a literary analysis can uncover an unexpected complexity to what seems a simple, straightforward tale.
 
At the conclusion of the book, Keefer steps back and asks questions about the New Testament as a whole. He reveals that whether read as a single document or as a collection of works, the New Testament presents readers with a wide variety of forms and viewpoints, and a literary exploration helps bring this richness to light. 
 
A fascinating investigation of the New Testament as a classic literary work, this Very Short Introduction uses a literary framework—plot, character, narrative arc, genre—to illuminate the language, structure, and the crafting of this venerable text. 

目次: 

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The New Testament and the Literary Canon
3. The Gospels
4. Paul and his Letters
5. Revelation
6. The New Testament, bound
References
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Kyle Keefer is Assistant Professor of Religion at Converse College, in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

"Keefer successfully, and often brilliantly, embarks specifically on a series of literary readings of the books of the New Testament, which are accessible, provocative and theologically highly suggestive... This will be an excellent book for students beginning with the study of the Bible, but also for the general reader, its scholarship unobtrusive but certain, its tone simple but never patronizing... I look forward to encouraging my students to read this book as a sure first step in their coming to understand the New Testament as literature."-- David Jasper, University of Glasgow, Literature and Theology

商品情報

ISBN : 9780195300208

著者: 
Kyle Keefer
ページ
136 ページ
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Paperback
サイズ
111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2008年10月
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Very Short Introductions
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The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]

The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]

The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction [#168]