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New Stories for Old

Biblical Patterns in the Novel

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  • © 1998

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  1. Harold Fisch
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Part of the book series: Cross Currents in Religion and Culture (CCRC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introductory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dialogue and Repetition

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 3-22

  3. Biblical Realism and the English Novel

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Robinson’s Biblical Island

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 25-40

    3. Biblical “Imitation” in Joseph Andrews

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 41-57

    4. Natural Piety in Silas Marner

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 58-77

  4. Job in Modern Fiction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Kafka’s Debate with Job

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 81-99

    3. Being Possessed by Job

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 100-115

    4. Biblical Patterns for Sale: Malamud, The Fixer

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 116-130

  5. Isaac Unbound

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Saul Bellow and Philip Roth

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 133-153

    3. The Akedah in A.B. Yehoshua

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 154-192

    4. The Day before Yesterday

      • Harold Fisch
      Pages 193-215

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 216-236
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About this book

Harold Fisch explores the biblical influence on the style and structure of landmark works by Fielding, Defoe, George Eliot, Kafka, Dostoevsky and others. Whilst the great novelists could not manage without the Bible, at the same time 'it would not do'. The book concludes with two chapters on the Israeli novelists S.Y. Agnon and A.B. Yehoshua.

About the author

HAROLD FISCH, now Professor Emeritus in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, was rector of that university from 1968-1971. A graduate of Sheffield and Oxford, he has taught at Leeds University and has been a guest lecturer at Brown, Yale, Maryland and elsewhere. He is well-known as a scholar and critic with an equal mastery of English literature and Hebrew and biblical studies. Among his publications are: Jerusalem and Albion: the Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth Century Literature, Hamlet and the Word: the Covenant Pattern in Shakespeare, A Remembered Future: a Study in Literary Mythology, and Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation.

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