By Beth Hawkins Benedix (eds.)
This assortment seeks to fill the interdisciplinary area that addresses while, why, and the way writers strategically reference the Bible for subversive or re-evaluative reasons. It explores the categorical biblical items used this subversion, and why they're used, near to many modern sources.
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By one interpreter’s calculations, “The ungulates alone would have produced tons of manure a day. The waste on the lowest deck at least (and possibly the middle deck) could not simply be pushed overboard, since the deck was below the water line; the waste would have to be carried up a deck or two. Vermicomposting could reduce the rate of waste accumulation, but it requires maintenance of its own. ”2 Comical though it might seem to the reader disposed to view the Bible as myth or metaphor, the literalist here poses his question scientifically.
53. Midrash here refers to aggadic midrash. 54. David C. Jacobson, Modern Midrash: The Retelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth Century Hebrew Writers (Albany: SUNY Press, 1987), 1. Refuse, Realism, Retelling 41 55. Joseph Heinemann, “The Nature of the Aggadah,” Midrash and Literature, eds. Sanford Budick and Geoffrey Hartman (New Haven: Yale UP, 1986), 53. 56. David Curzon, Modern Poems on the Bible: An Anthology (Philadelphia: JPS, 1994), 3. 57. Curzon, 4–5. 58. Heinemann, 49. 59.
20. Woodmorappe, 38. 21. Ibid. 22. Ibid. 23. Ibid. 24. Ibid. 25. Pleins, 13. 26. Jeanette Winterson, Boating for Beginners (London: Minerva, 1990), 6. 27. Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (New York: Knopf, 1989), 4. 28. , 4. 29. , 3. 30. , 12. 31. , 6. 32. , 10. 33. , 11. 34. , 11. 35. Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage (Toronto: Penguin, 1984), 1. 36. , 3. 37. , 1. 38. , 197. 39. , 198. 40. , 197. 41. , 197. 42. David Maine, The Preservationist (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), 89.