New Stories for Old

HAROLD FISCH, now Professor Emeritus in English Literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, was rector of that university from 1968-1971. A graduate of Sheffield and Oxford, he has taught at Leeds University and has been a guest lecturer at Brown, Yale, Maryland and elsewhere. He is well-known as a scholar and critic with an equal mastery of English literature and Hebrew and biblical studies. Among his publications are: Jerusalem and Albion: the Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth Century Literature, Hamlet and the Word: the Covenant Pattern in Shakespeare, A Remembered Future: a Study in Literary Mythology, and Poetry with a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation.

• Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY Dialogue and Repetition PART TWO: BIBLICAL REALISM AND THE ENGLISH NOVEL Robinson's Biblical Island 'Imitation' in Joseph Andrews Natural Piety in Silas Marner PART THREE: JOB IN MODERN FICTION Kafka's Debate with Job Being Possessed by Job Biblical Patterns for Sale: The Fixer PART FOUR: ISAAC UNBOUND Saul Bellow and Philip Roth The Akedah in A.B. Yehoshua The Day before Yesterday Index

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