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People of the Book : Christian identity and literary culture

The author examines the "cultural and literary identity among Western Christians which the centrality of 'the Book' has helped to create, and the Christian use of the phrase 'People of the book.'"--Preface
Print Book, English, ©1996
Eerdmans ; Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, Grand Rapids, Mich., Cambridge, U.K., ©1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xx, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780802838179, 9780802841773, 0802838170, 0802841775
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Logocentrism and scriptural tradition
Scripture upon scripture
Secular scripture : the "beautiful captive"
Evangelization and literacy
The book without and the book within
Authorial intent and the willful reader
Symbolism of the reader
Authentic narrative
The Bible and the American myth
Theory and the broken-hearted reader