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192 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520254558
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 February 2008
Description
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible ...
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192 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520254558
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 01 February 2008
Description
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible ...