Manifesto!

Episode 22: Reluctant Prophets


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Jake and Phil are joined by novelist Daniel Torday to discuss Robert Alter's “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” alongside The Book of Jonah.

The Manifesto:

Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible,” from The Art of Biblical Narrative
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/robert-alter/the-art-of-biblical-narrative/9780465022557/

The Art:

The Book of Jonah
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1&version=KJV

Works cited:

Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691145754/postmodern-belief

Genesis 38, Judah and Tamar

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+38&version=KJV

Isaiah Berlin, Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism

http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/hume.pdf

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Baba Metzia, page 59-a

http://www.ravhanan.org/uploads/6/5/6/4/65649719/defeating-god-and-defeating-ones-fellow-man-.pdf

Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/prelude/

E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

https://www.amazon.com/ASPECTS-NOVEL-M-Forster/dp/0156091801

John Miles, Laughing at the Bible, Jonah as Parody

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1454356

The Book of Job

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=KJV

The Book of Nahum

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nahum+1&version=KJV

They Will Have to Die Now, James Verini, “Sennacherib’s boast“

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393652475

The Book of Esther

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+1&version=KJV

St. Augustine on Jonah

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102102.htm

Anonymous, Patience, translation by Richard Scott-Robinson

http://www.eleusinianm.co.uk/middle-english-literature-retold-in-modern-english/religious-poetry/patience

Charles Portis, True Grit

https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Novel-Charles-Portis/dp/B008PIC86I

Daniel Torday, Boomer1

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191793

Daniel Torday, The Last Flight of Poxl West

https://www.amazon.com/Last-Flight-Poxl-West-Novel/dp/1250081602

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