Blake and the Bible
By: Christopher Rowland
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780300112603
Subjects: English Religious poetry; Religion; In literature; Bible; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: The old and new testaments are 'the great code of art'; title: 'Thus did Job continually': the biblical hermenuetics of Blake's Job engravings: part I; title: 'But now my eye seeth thee': the biblical hermenuetics of Blake's Job engravings: part II; title: Exploring the contraries in diversity; title: Blake and 'the Bible of hell': the marriage of heaven and hell, the first book of Urizen and drawings for the book of Enoch; title: 'Would to God that all the Lords people were prophets'; title: William Blake and the radical interpretation of the Bible: Gerrard Winstanley, Abiezer Coppe, Ralph Cudworth, and Hans Denck; title: 'From impulse not from rules': Blake and Jesus; title: Antinomianism, atonement and life in the diving body: Blake and Paul; title: Interpreting the Bible through images; title: Blake and biblical interpretation: some concluding reflections.