Reading the margins : encounters with the Bible in literature /
Reading the Margins engages with literature to offer a kind of commentary on biblical ethics. Using Matthew's Beatitudes and sheep and goats parable as an organizing principle, Gilmour argues there is much to learn about Jesus's "peacemakers" and the call to feed the hungry from...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
- Chapter 1. Poverty and Woody Guthrie's Train Bound for Glory
- Chapter 2. Anne Brontë Confronts Domestic Unrest: Reading Wisdom's Diary
- Chapter 3. Daniel Defoe's Shipwrecked Bible and Jean Rhys's Cardboard World
- Chapter 4. Joy Kogawa and Salman Rushdie "Verses" Racism
- Chapter 5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Rock Star: Bob Dylan in Narnia
- Chapter 6. An Old Curiosity Shop and an Old Copy of Bunyan's Progress
- Chapter 7. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth: Richard Adams's Rabbit Theologians
- Chapter 8. The Gospel of the Imagination, or the Imaginary Gospel
- Afterword: Censorship and The Far Side of Religion
- Works Cited
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.