Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets
Manifesto! · Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah.
The Manifesto:
Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/ (https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/)
The Art:
The Book of Jonah
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV)
Works cited:
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief)
Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&version=KJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&version=KJV)
Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism
http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf (http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf)
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a
http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf (http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf)
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/ (https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/)
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801 (https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801)
John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356)
The Book of Job
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=KJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=KJV)
The Book of Nahum
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&version=KJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&version=KJV)
They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475 (https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475)
The Book of Esther
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=KJV (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=KJV)
St. Augustine on Jonah
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm (http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm)
Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson
http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience (http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience)
Charles Portis, True Grit
https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I (https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I)
Daniel Torday, Boomer1
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793)
Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602 (https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602)