Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 63-82
Keywords:
David,
;
Bathsheba
;
Bible. Appreciation
;
Children's Bibles
;
Novelle History and criticism
Abstract:
The chapter traces the story of David and Bathsheba in two forms of popular writing: children’s Bibles and Bible-based novels for adults. An account of the ubiquity of children’s Bibles in American life since the mid-nineteenth century is followed by brief surveys of recent scholarship on both the children’s and adults’ genres. The main body of the work traces changing ways this story of sex and murder has been presented to children while preserving a favorable view of David and the shifting treatments by novelists, leading toward both romance and sardonic irreverence, with Bathsheba emerging as a subject in her own right especially since the 1980s.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190461416.013.4
URL:
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