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Article: Greed.(Book Review)
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- September 26, 2004
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Greed by Phyllis A Tickle. Oxford University Press, 2004, 97 pp.
Deceiving in its modest size, with its cheerful yellow cover, Greed is one of the more sober and demanding reads of the summer. It stems from a lecture, delivered in October 2002, one of seven commissioned by the New York Public Library and Oxford Press. The author, Phyllis A. Tickle, a former religion editor for Publishers Weekly, adeptly leads us through the major representations of greed in Western literature and art.
She begins with St. Paul, the author of Christianity's first imaging of greed with his dictum: "Radix omnium" Fans of The Da Vinci Code will appreciate Tickle's ...