1st Edition
The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction – Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
1. The Flood Narrative in Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Denae Dyck
2. Before the Dragon’s Inverted Scales: Reading the Sodom Narrative in Genesis with its Retelling Stories
Soo Kim Sweeney
3. She Chose to Turn: Lot’s Wife as Sodom’s Witness in Contemporary Literature
Katherine Low
4. Sad and Beautiful: Sarah’s Laughter in Itzik Manger and Other Modern Poetry
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
5. ‘Ah gots daughtuh, an’she gots daughtuh’: Hagar and Her Offspring in Three Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Reincarnations of her Biblical Original
Kathryn Walls
6. Seeing, Connection and Visibility in Margaret Atwood’s and the Bible’s Handmaids’ Tales
Jo Carruthers
7. Seeing Red: The Elision of Gender-based Violence in Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent
Caroline Blyth
8. ‘The sire, to whom I must make love’: Judah’s Afterlives in Modern Literature
Eric Ziolkowski
9. Joseph and His Brothers in Twentieth Century Literature
Bradley C. Gregory
10. Moses as a Leader in Twentieth Century Literature
Stuart Lasine
11. Samson
Brian Britt
12. A Different Kind of Harvest: Contemporary Women Novelists Respond to Ruth
Mary F. Brewer
13. Bathsheba: Innocent Victim or Cunning Schemer?
Hugh Pyper
14. Reimagining Abishag: Retelling Her Story
Thea Gomelauri
15. Reception of Daniel in Novels
Jason M. Silverman
16. Hosea
Kirsi Cobb
17. Singing Scripture: On the Reception of Psalms in Contemporary Praise & Worship Lyrics
David Davage
18. Of Siblings and Soccer, Lions and Lobsters: Retellings of Biblical Stories in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Ina Döttinger
19. Biblical Retellings in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
Marian Kelsey
20. Retellings and Political Discourse
Kyu Seop Kim
21. The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba
Ceri Deosun
Index
Biography
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer is Professor in Old Testament Exegesis at ALT School of Theology, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scripture, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has published several monographs and edited volumes on Isaiah and Zechariah, a reception-historical commentary on Jonah (Jonah through the Centuries, 2021), as well as a monograph devoted to Jonathan in modern literature (In Search of Jonathan, 2022).
