Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry

Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer is Professor in Old Testament Exegesis at ALT School of Theology, Sweden, and Research Associate at the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scripture, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has published several monographs and edited volumes on Isaiah and Zechariah, a reception-historical commentary on Jonah (Jonah through the Centuries, 2021), as well as a monograph devoted to Jonathan in modern literature (In Search of Jonathan, 2022).

• Introduction LENA-SOFIA TIEMEYER1 The Flood Narrative in Feminist and Queer Perspectives DENAE DYCK2 Before the Dragon’s Inverted Scales: Reading the Sodom Narrative in Genesis with Its Retelling Stories SOO KIM SWEENEY3 She Chose to Turn: Lot’s Wife as Sodom’s Witness in Contemporary Literature KATHERINE LOW4 Sad and Beautiful: Sarah’s Laughter in Itzik Manger and Other Modern Poetry ZOHAR HADROMI-ALLOUCHE5 ‘Ah gots daughtuh, an’ she gots daughtuh’: Hagar and Her Offspring in Three Reincarnations of Her Biblical Original KATHRYN WALLS6 Seeing, Connection, and Visibility in Margaret Atwood’s and the Bible’s Handmaids’ Tales JO CARRUTHERS7 Seeing Red: The Elision of Gender-Based Violence in Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent CAROLINE BLYTH8 ‘The Sire, to Whom I Must Make Love’: Judah’s Afterlives in Modern Literature ERIC ZIOLKOWSKI9 Joseph and His Brothers in Twentieth-Century Literature BRADLEY C. GREGORY10 Moses as a Leader in Twentieth-Century Literature STUART LASINE11 From Passion to Politics in the Literary Reception of Samson BRIAN BRITT12 A Different Kind of Harvest: Contemporary Women Novelists Respond to Ruth MARY F. BREWER13 Bathsheba: Innocent Victim or Cunning Schemer? HUGH PYPER14 Reimagining Abishag: Retelling Her Story THEA GOMELAURI15 Reception of Daniel in Novels JASON M. SILVERMAN16 Victim, Vixen, Saint and Sinner: Examining Literary Retellings of Hosea 1–3 KIRSI COBB17 Singing Scripture: On the Reception of Psalms in Contemporary Praise & Worship Lyrics DAVID DAVAGE18 Of Siblings and Soccer, Lions and Lobsters: Retellings of Biblical Stories in Children’s and Young Adult Literature INA DÖTTINGER19 Biblical Retellings in Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction MARIAN KELSEY20 Retellings and Political Discourse KYU SEOP KIM21 The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba CERI DEOSUN