Trevor Hart

Alison Jack

Michael Fuller

Vassiliki Kolocotroni

Heather Walton

Ann Loades

Elisabeth Jay

Tibor Fabiny

Margaret Masson

Hannah Marije Altorf

John Reuben Davies

Lori A . Kanitz

Donald Orr

Jeremy J . Smith

These 14 essays by scholars who have worked with David Jasper in both church and academy develop original discussions of themes emerging from his writings on literature, theology and hermeneutics. The arts, institutions, literature and liturgy are among the subject areas they cover.

Conversations with the Work of David Jasper

The End of the Church?

Caroline Blyth

The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have explicitly drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth. The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama brings together a multi-disciplinary scholarship from the fields of biblical interpretation, literary criticism, criminology, and studies in film and television to discuss international texts and media spanning the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The volume concludes with an afterword by crime writer and academic, Liam McIvanney. These essays explore both explicit and implicit engagements between biblical texts and crime narratives, analysing the multiple layers of meaning that such engagements can produce – cross-referencing Sherlock Holmes with the murder mystery in the Book of Tobit, observing biblical violence through the eyes of Christian fundamentalists in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost, catching the thread of homily in the serial murders of Se7en, or analysing biblical sexual violence in light of television crime procedurals. The contributors also raise intriguing questions about the significance of the Bible as a religious and cultural text – its association with the culturally pervasive themes of violence, (im)morality, and redemption, and its relevance as a symbol of the (often fraught) location that religion occupies within contemporary secular culture.

Murderous Texts

The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama

The first textbook to engage with the crossover between the Bible and literature, covering all the key methods of literary criticism and presenting a truly inter-disciplinary approach.

The Bible and Literature

A deep sadness descended on the grand old London townhouse that night... Gymnast Louis Trevelyan is baffled. Why in his early twenties has he suddenly started having visions? Who is the man trying to make contact, why is he being held prisoner somewhere in an unfamiliar city, and how does he know Louis's name? Hidden away for his entire life in the north of England, Louis has grown up blissfully unaware of the brutal oppression exercised by the dictatorial Sponsorship Scheme throughout the rest of the UK. Far from being the benevolent guardians they portray themselves to be, the Sponsors rule by fear and cruelty - and as Louis is about to discover, the cruellest of all is the Scheme's leader, Lord Bassenford. Leaving the safety of his Lake District home behind, Louis sets out on a journey to investigate the meaning behind his mysterious visions, and in doing so finally learns the truth about the people around him. What he discovers will change his life for ever.

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Dory's Avengers

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