The Bible in crime fiction and drama: murderous texts
Cover -- Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the bible -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 On the Trail of a Biblical Serial Killer: Sherlock Holmes and the Book of Tobit -- Murder and Death...
| Summary: | Cover -- Scriptural Traces: Critical Perspectives on the Reception and Influence of the bible -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 On the Trail of a Biblical Serial Killer: Sherlock Holmes and the Book of Tobit -- Murder and Death in the Book of Tobit -- Sherlock Holmes and the Book of Tobit -- Reopening the Case -- A Final Twist? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Tartan Noir and Sacred Scripture: The Bible as Artefact and Metanarrative in Peter May's Lewis Trilogy -- Chapter 4 Faith in a Cold Climate: The Bible and Violence in Henning Mankell's Before the Frost -- The Chilly Art of Biblical Violence -- 'I Don't Know My Way around This Thing': Biblical Illiteracy as a Cultural Norm -- 'Everything Was Spelled Out in the Holy Book': The Bible as Mandate for Violence -- 'I Am Your God': Religious Fanaticism and Religious Violence -- 'He Wasn't Insane So Much as a Fanatic': Final Thoughts -- Chapter 5 'Understanded of the People': C. J. Sansom's Revelation as a Contemporary Cautionary Tale -- The Bible in Sixteenth-Century England -- The Place of Revelation -- Solving the Mysteries -- Revelation and Fanaticism Today -- Chapter 6 Where Have All the Good Men Gone? Male Antiheroes in the Book of Judges and American Television -- Samson as a 'Liminal Hero' -- Walter White as an Antihero -- Hegemonic Masculinity in the Hero Stories of Samson and Walter White -- Questioning the Validity of Violence -- Conclusion: An Alternative to Violence -- Chapter 7 'Long Is the Way and Hard, That Out of Hell Leads Up to Light': Serial Murder as Homily in Se7en -- Chapter 8 'The Man Who Died': Reading Death in Job with Finnish Noir -- Chapter 9 The Divine Unsub: Television Crime Procedurals and Biblical Sexual Violence -- Chapter 10 Poirot, the Bourgeois Prophet: Agatha Christie's Biblical Adaptations Poirot as Prophet -- A Bourgeois Bible -- Prophetic In-Sights -- Biblical Archetypes -- Societal Serpents -- Chapter 11 'A Dangerous World': The Hermeneutics of Agatha Christie's Later Novels -- Beyond the Ten Commandments -- The Loss of Prophecy -- New World Projects -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Afterword -- Index of Authors -- Index of Biblical References |
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| ISBN: | 0567677990 |