Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literature and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004177529)

Contemporary sacred text scholarship has been stimulated by a number of intersecting trends: a surging interest in religion, sacred texts, and inspirational issues; burgeoning developments in and applications of literary theories; intensifying academic focus on diverse cultures whether for education or scholarship. Although much has been written individually about Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an, no collection combines an examination of all three. Sacred Tropes interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays. Contributors collectively and also often individually use mixed literary approaches instead of the older single theory strategy. Appropriate for classroom or research, the essays utilize a variety of literary theoretical lenses including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms through which to examine these sacred works.

Author: Roberta Sabbath
ISBN-10: 9004177523
ISBN-13: 9789004177529
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 15