About this title: Literary critic Northrop Frye examines the Bible through myth and symbol, finding patterns in and correspondences between the Old and the New Testaments.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 1983-11
ISBN-13:9780156364805ISBN:0156364808
Description: Good. Excellent condition but has writing inside the book, owner name and some notes and underling on a dozen pages, I ship immedieately. read more
Description: New. 0156027801 NEVER USED! This book has never been read. There are no highlights, No pen marks, No missing pages. The binding is sturdy. Tracking information provided for all orders. Orders over $49.99 will receive an upgrade from standard to priority mail. Customer satisfaction guaranteed! ! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780156364805ISBN:0156364808
Description: Very Good; Some wear to cover and some underlining. Shipped from a smoke free home in Michigan. (Rel). 0156364808. 0.71 x 7.98 x 5.35 Inches; 288 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780151369027ISBN:015136902X
Description: Good. 1982; hardcover; No notes/hiliting; No dustcover; Bumped corners; Lightly edgeworn cover; No dog-ears; several spots/stains on book edge; inscription on first page partially inked out; faded cloth cover. read more
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. An outstanding literary critic analyses the Bible as literature, and demonstrates abundantly that it is the single most important influence in Westren art and literature. 261 pages. This copy is in good condition. The binding is solid, but the spine has some faint reading creases. The cover has generally mild wear, but there is a half inch tear at the bottom of the spine. There are a few passages marked with a vertical line in the margin, but other than that the ... read more
Edition: Harvest / HBJ edition. First Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, NY
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780156364805ISBN:0156364808
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Glossy cover with light edge wear, reader's crease. Text clean, binding solid. Glued binding. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Excellent book on the Bible and its literary force. This book should be read carefully, then re-read by anyone who takes seriously the Bible. Reading this book illuminated three important things for me: first, creationists and Biblical literalists seem to have no clue what they're reading when they pick up the Bible; Christian evolutionists seem to have no clue what they're reading when they pick up the Bible; and the rest of us seem to have no clue what they're reading when they pick up the Bible.
For the faithful Christian, reading this book can be more then an education - it can also be a faith-building experience. For the faithful Mormon, a careful reading of this book will reveal the enormous difference between Mormons and Protestants when it comes to interpreting scripture. While Northrop Frye is neither Mormon nor concerned with that difference, he illuminates this difference nonetheless."
"This was a very important book to me. I began to look upon language differently after reading this book. Metaphors became very important. I began to collect similes and metaphors used in everyday speech that my patients used to describe their symptoms. Favorite quotes: "The causal thinker is confronted with a mass of phenomena that he can understand only by thinking of them as effects, after which he searches for their precursors. These causes are antitypes of their effects, that is, revelations the real meaning of the existence of the effects." "Milton, being a poet, understood that changes in metaphors were far more important than changes in doctrine.""
"A view of the Bible from the standpoint of a literary critic, with surprising findings. He assesses the Bible from the standpoints of myth, metaphor and language -- with an unusual analysis of what the Bible "literally" means. Not an easy read, but well worth the effort."
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