Contributor
Bloom, Harold.
Imprint:New York : Chelsea House, 1987.
Descriptionviii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:The first three chapters of Genesis: principles of governance stated narratively / Kenneth Burke. - Sacred history and the beginnings of prose fiction / Robert Alter. - Representations of reality in Homer and the Old Testament / Erich Auerbach. - The wooing of Rebekah / Meir Sternberg. - The struggle with the angel: textual analysis of Genesis 32:22-32 / Roland Barthes. - Wrestling Sigmund: three paradigms for poetic originality / Harold Bloom. - The second address of Moses: Deuteronomy 5:1b-28:68 / Robert Polzin. - Job / Martin Buber. - The heart determines: Psalm 73 / Martin Buber. - The style of Koheleth / Robert Gordis. - The garden of metaphor: The Song of Songs / Robert Alter. - The place and function of the Song of the Vineyard in Isaiah's Prophecy / Yehoshua Gitay. - The poetics of prophecy: Jeremiah / Geoffrey Hartman. - On Socrates and the prophets / Leo Strauss. - Jonah and Moby-Dick / Couglas Robinson. - The boy in the shirt / Frank Kermode. - Phases of Revelation / Northrop Frye. - "Before Moses was, I Am": the original and the belated testaments / Harold Bloom. - Pauline typology and revisionary criticism / Herbert Marks. - Apocalypse / D. H. Lawrence.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 337-339.
Note:Presents selections of literary criticism devoted to the Bible.
