Spectral Authority: The Presence of Shakespeare in Biblical Scholarship

Recent scholarship has seen a spate of interest in the intertwined interpretation histories of Shakespeare and the Bible, especially in how biblical hermeneutics shaped Shakespeare's reception. This article inverts that trend by investigating the presence of Shakespeare as an analogy, reference...

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Main Author: Bloomfield, Jem ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2020]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2020, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-196
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HA Bible
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
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Summary:Recent scholarship has seen a spate of interest in the intertwined interpretation histories of Shakespeare and the Bible, especially in how biblical hermeneutics shaped Shakespeare's reception. This article inverts that trend by investigating the presence of Shakespeare as an analogy, reference and model in Biblical Studies at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how Shakespeare has provided a set of images around authority and performance on which biblical scholars have drawn to frame and articulate their ideas about the Bible, and it suggests future possibilities for interdisciplinary work.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/chy.2020.0033