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Shakespeare and the Bible Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876. Seiss, J. A. “The influence of the Bible on literature” The Evangelical Review 27, Jul 1853, 1–17. [parallels in Portia's speech on ‘the quality of mercy’] Selkirk, James Brown.
A Christ figure, also known as a Christ-Image, is a literary technique that the author uses to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus.More loosely, the Christ figure is a spiritual or prophetic character who parallels Jesus, or other spiritual or prophetic figures.
Thus, allusions to Jonah in Medieval art and literature are usually an allegory for the burial and resurrection of Christ. Another common typological allegory is with the four major Old Testament prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. These four prophets prefigure the four Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. There were multiple ...
Blending autobiography and literary criticism, Miller (a co-founder of Salon.com) discusses how she resisted her Catholic upbringing as a child; she loved the Narnia books but felt betrayed when she discovered their Christian subtext. As an adult she found deep delight in the books, and decided that these works transcend their Christian elements.
The short story is replete with religious themes and biblical allusions, the latter seen as the realization of the Bible stories of the "Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican", Jacob and Job, among others, in the work [26] that were crafted, in part, to fulfill O'Connor's goal to increase the meaning of the story with an approach she called ...
John Dryden by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681).
The title of West's work may be a biblical allusion to the Old Testament. Susan Sanderson writes: The most famous literary or historical reference to locusts is in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in which God sends a plague of locusts to the pharaoh of Egypt as retribution for refusing to free the enslaved Jews. Millions of locusts swarm over ...
A paraphrase of the Book of Daniel placing in parallel prophecy and interprephrases. A biblical paraphrase is a literary work which has as its goal, not the translation of the Bible, but rather, the rendering of the Bible into a work that retells all or part of the Bible in a manner that accords with a particular set of theological or political doctrines. [1]