Gospel Thrillers - Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible

"Accessible to general and academic readers, Gospel Thrillers interweaves close readings of key themes in a little studied fiction genre with "real world" tensions over biblical vulnerability, evident in political and cultural debates over the Bible and in popular literature about the Bible and Christian origins"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Bible Hunters; 2. Birth of a Genre; 3. Shifting Sands; 4. Texts and Sects; 5. Knowledge Brokers; 6. Academic Thrillers.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew S. Jacobs is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. Editor of the Elements of Religion in Late Antiquity (published by Cambridge University Press), and the writer and co-editor of five previous books, he is in addition author of Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (2016), which in 2017 was awarded the Philip Schaff Best Book Prize from the American Society of Church History.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andrew S. Jacobs, Andrew S. (Harvard Divinity School Jacobs, Jacobs Andrew S.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781009384612
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938461-2
• Seiten: 300
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Religiöse Schriften, Gebete, Gesangbücher, relig. Meditationen; Religious and spiritual fiction, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, New Testaments, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Literary studies: postcolonial literature