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Article: A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature.(Brief Article)
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- December 1, 1995
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Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, David Lyle Jeffrey, general editor (William B. Eerdmans, $75, 960 pp.), is a book that re-establishes its premise with a kind of loving exuberance on every page. It is something of a commonplace that no book in English literature is more important than the Bible, a book that, of course, was originally not a part of English literature at all. But how true is that claim, finally?
The particular joy of Jeffrey's dictionary is that while demonstrating that, yes indeed, the Bible is everywhere in English literature, it takes you to places in English literature that you haven't been and, even better, to places in ...
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