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Blake and the Bible
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The Bible was crucial for William Blake and for his poetic genius, whether as an object of criticism or as an inspiration. This book - the first substantial study of the topic in sixty years - locates Blake within the broad spectrum of Christian biblical interpretation and explores the ways in which Blake engaged with the Bible. Christopher Rowland argues that Blake's approach to the Bible was broadly consistent, even though he underwent something of a religious change in his later years. The author also shows how Blake saw himself as being in the prophetic tradition and also as somehow continuing the work of John of Patmos, author of the Book of Revelation.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of William Blakeās life
- Editorial note and abbreviations
- 1. The Old and New Testaments are āthe Great Code of Artā
- 2. āThus did Job continuallyā The biblical hermeneutics of Blakeās Job engravings: Part I
- 3. āBut now my eye seeth theeā The biblical hermeneutics of Blakeās Job engravings: Part II
- 4. Exploring the contraries in divinity
- 5. Blake and āThe Bible of Hellā The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The First Book of Urizen and drawings for the Book of Enoch
- 6. āWould to God that all the Lords people were prophetsā
- 7. William Blake and the radical interpretation of the Bible Gerrard Winstanley, Abiezer Coppe, Ralph Cudworth, and Hans Denck
- 8. āFrom impulse not from rulesā Blake and Jesus
- 9. Antinomianism, atonement and life in the Divine Body Blake and Paul
- 10. Interpreting the Bible through images
- 11. Blake and biblical interpretation Some Concluding Reflections
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Blakeās texts and illuminated books
- Index of references to Blakeās images
- Index of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and other Jewish texts
- Index of New Testament and other early Christian texts
- Index of names and subjects