A Dictionary Of Biblical Tradition In English Literature

by David L. Jeffrey

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1992

Overview

Offering an extraordinary window on centuries of dialogue between the Bible and literature, this superb, unprecedented, and award-winning reference work is designed to help the modern reader understand how biblical motifs, concepts, names, quotations, and allusions have been transmitted through exegetical tradition and used by authors of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The book includes several hundred encyclopedic articles (more than a million words) written by a distinguished international roster of more than 160 contributors representing the disciplines of biblical studies, theology, patristics, and literary studies.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Scripture teaches nothing but charity, nor condemns anything except cupidity, and in this way shapes the minds of men” (source)

“In the NT it appears as a ritual washing of the body, signifying spiritual purification.” (source)

“Daniel has been regarded as a prophet not only of the birth of Christ, but also of the end of the world and the advent of Antichrist and the millennium which precedes the final judgment.” (source)

“Bucer rejects the Lutheran formula ‘Law and Gospel’ as sophistical;” (source)

“ the evil one and Abel the just, sinners versus saints” (source)

Product Details

• Title: A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
• Author: David L. Jeffrey
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 1992
• Logos Release Date: 2001
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible › In literature--Dictionaries; English literature › Dictionaries; Religion and literature › Dictionaries
• ISBNs: 9780802836342, 0802836348
• Resource ID: LLS:13.0.1
• Resource Type: Encyclopedia
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-07T20:23:52Z

About David L. Jeffrey

David Lyle Jeffrey is distinguished professor of literature and humanities at Baylor University, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Ottawa. He earned his PhD from Princeton University, and is the author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature and People of the Book.