The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama : Murderous Texts /: Murderous Texts. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Caroline Blyth, Alison Jack.
• Editors: Blyth, Caroline; Jack, Alison
• Contents: Notes on ContributorsList of Abbreviations1. Introduction – Caroline Blyth and Alison Jack2. On the Trail of a Biblical Serial Killer: Sherlock Holmes and the Book of Tobit – Matthew A. Collins3. Tartan Noir and Sacred Scripture: The Bible as Artefact and Metanarrative in Peter May's Lewis Trilogy – Alison Jack4. Faith in a Cold Climate: The Bible and Violence in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost – Caroline Blyth5. 'Understanded of the People': C. J. Sansom's Revelation as a Contemporary Cautionary Tale – Suzanne Bray6. Where Have All the Good Men Gone? Male Anti-Heroes in the Book of Judges and American Television – Benjamin Bixler7. 'Long Is the Way and Hard, that Out of Hell Leads Up to Light': Serial Murder as Homily in Se7en – James C. Oleson8. The Man Who Died: Reading Death in Job with Finnish Noir – Yael Klangwisan9. The Divine Unsub: Television Crime Procedurals and Biblical Sexual Violence – Dan W. Clanton, Jr10. Poirot, the Bourgeois Prophet: Agatha Christie's Biblical Adaptations – Hannah M. Strømmen11. 'A Dangerous World': The Hermeneutics of Agatha Christie's Later Novels – J. C. Bernthal12. Afterword – Liam McIlvanneyIndex of AuthorsIndex of Biblical References.
• Publisher Details: London : T&T Clark
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Religion -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- General; Biblical studies & exegesis
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567686466; 0567686469
• Related ISBNs: 9780567677983
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