Except where otherwise stated, the Biblical quotations are taken from The New Oxford Annotated Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Roland E. Murphy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. In Chapter Five, on Job, most of the Biblical quotations are taken from the Authorized Version (1611).
Factual references are all drawn, unless otherwise stated, from The Oxford Companion to the Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.
2 THE VULGATE OF EXPERIENCE
‘Huitzilopochtli is as magnificently forgotten. . .’ H. L. Mencken, ‘Memorial Service’, in H. L. Mencken on Religion, edited by S. T. Joshi, Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2002, p. 293.
‘The death of one god. . .’ Wallace Stevens, ‘Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction’, Collected Poetry and Prose, New York, The Library of America (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.), 1997, p. 329.
‘The Bible is held together. . .’ Northrop Frye, Words with Power, San Diego/New York/London, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, p. 102.
‘Das Werdende, das ewig wirkt und lebt. . .’ Goethe, Faust: Part One, Prologue in Heaven (author’s translation).
Here, in this story of Jacob’s Dream. . . John Skinner DD, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1980 (first published 1910), p. 376.
‘You know, next year in Jerusalem. . .’ This dates the conversation to 1995.
‘Transparent man. . .’ Stevens, ‘On the Way to the Bus’, Collected Poetry and Prose, p. 472.
‘The milkman came. . .’ Stevens, ‘Les Plus Belles Pages’, Collected Poetry and Prose, p. 222.
‘God does not exist, he is eternal. . .’ Kierkegaard, The Last Years: Journals 1853–55, edited and translated by Ronald Gregor Smith, Collins, 1965, p. 155.
‘The eye’s plain version. . .’ Stevens, ‘An Ordinary Evening in New Haven’, Collected Poetry and Prose, p. 397.
‘The poem is the cry. . .’ Ibid.
‘The summer night. . .’ Stevens, ‘The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm’, Collected Poetry and Prose, p. 331.
‘Clear your mind of cant. . .’ James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1946, II, p. 496.
3 PROPHETS
‘If my mental processes. . .’ J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds, quoted in C. S. Lewis, Miracles, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1947, p. 28.
‘By trusting to argument. . .’ Lewis, Miracles, p. 28.
King saw political and social events. . . Richard Lischer, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America, New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 4.
‘If we are wrong. . .’ Martin Luther King Jr, Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association Mass Meeting, 5 December 1955, http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/ documentsentry/the_addres_to_the_first_montgomery_improvement_ association_mia_mass_meeting/ (retrieved 11 November 2014).
‘You can’t hem him. . .’ Lischer, The Preacher King, p. 161.
‘We will march around. . .’ Lischer, Ibid., p. 248.
‘Hebrew scholars contend. . .’ Lischer, Ibid., p. 177.
‘After the first temple. . .’ William M. Schniedewind, The Word of God in Transition: From Prophet to Exegete in the Second Temple Period, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, p. 15.
Whether you take the view. . . Schniedewind defends the earlier dating. Thomas L. Thompson, The Bible in History (London, Jonathan Cape, 1999), and Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), are representatives of the late dating theory.
‘orality was. . .’ Schniedewind, The Word of God in Transition, p. 119.
The Rabbis believed. . . William M. Schniedewind, How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 15, passim.
‘The Christian. . .’ Piers McGrandle, Trevor Huddleston: Turbulent Priest, London, Continuum, 2004, p. 123.
‘It is this mystery. . .’ Ibid., p. 125.
‘The Baptist was reading. . .’ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, London, Everyman, 1995, p. 23.
4 HOLY WISDOM
‘whenever one enters. . .’ Procopius on Buildings, edited and translated by H. B. Dewing, Loeb Classical Library, London, William Heinemann, and New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914-54, III, p. 389.
‘we knew not whether. . .’ The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text, translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Shobowitz-Wetzor, Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1953, p. 111.
‘At your mystical supper. . .’ Quoted in Derek Krueger, ‘Christian Piety and Practice in the Sixth Century’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian, edited by Michael Maas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 292.
‘The Logos is no longer. . .’ Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by David Womersley, London, Allen Lane, 1994, I.xxi, p. 782.
‘Cesare fui e son Iustiniano. . .’ Dante, The Divine Comedy, translated by Robin Kirkpatrick, London, Penguin Books, 2007, Paradiso VI.10–12, p. 50.
‘The vain titles. . .’ Gibbon, II.xliv, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, II.xliv, p. 778.
‘The satirical historian. . .’ Ibid., II.xl, p. 565.
‘From his elevation. . .’ Ibid., II.xl, p. 561.
‘Two things fill the mind. . .’ Immanuel Kant, Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Critique of Practical Reason), Werke in Sechs Bänden, im Insel Verlag, 1956 Band IV, 300.
‘The Greek word. . .’ Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I.xxi, p. 782.
‘And this failure. . .’ Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond, London, Collins, 1956, p. 159.
5 JOB
‘Lloyd-Jones reminds us. . .’ Sophocles, Tragedies (In Two Volumes), translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1994, I, p. 1.
‘I know of no other Christianity. . .’ Quoted in Andrew Wright, Blake’s Job: A Commentary, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1972, p. 51.
‘May God us keep. . .’ William Blake, The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by Geoffrey Keynes, London, The Nonesuch Press, 1939, p. 862.
‘In the last plate. . .’ Northrop Frye, ‘The Keys to the Gates’, in James V. Logan et al. (eds), Some British Romantics: A collection of essays, Columbus, OH, Ohio State University Press, 1966, p. 40.
Which academic examiner. . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_ theory#Thomas_L._Thompson (retrieved 18 November 2014).
6 LIVING IN A METAPHOR: PSALMS
‘Entre deux hommes. . .’ Simone Weil, Cahiers, Paris, Gallimard, 2006, VI, p. 302.
‘Here we are astonished. . .’ Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life, translated by Raymond Rosenthal, London/Oxford, Mowbray, 1977, p. 330.
‘Love bade me welcome. . .’ George Herbert, ‘Love’, Complete Poems, edited by John Tobin, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1991, p. 178.
‘Iobs number. . .’ John Donne, in Izaak Walton, The Lives of John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Oxford, Oxford World’s Classics, 1927, p. 64.
‘Joy, I did lock thee up. . .’ Herbert, ‘The Bunch of Grapes’, Complete Poems, p. 119.
‘The poet invents. . .’ R. S. Thomas, A Choice of George Herbert’s Verse, Faber & Faber, 1967, p. 15.
‘Test me. . .’ Mitchell Dahood SJ (editor and translator), Psalms III, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2007, III.
The classic mythological expression. . . Plato, The Republic, from The Dialogues of Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, London, Sphere Books, 1970, IV.
‘If I take wing. . .’ Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms. A Translation with Commentary, New York, W. W. Norton, 2007, p. 203.
‘Of whom can it more truly. . .’ Thomas Merton, Bread in the Wilderness, London, Burns & Oates, 1976, p. 64.
‘If you don’t do so already. . .’ J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1981, p. 66.
‘Man lives. . .’ Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, p. xviii.
The conundrum. . . For an excellent summary of the difficulties of investigating the origin of the Eucharist, see Robert J. Daly SJ, ‘Eucharistic Origins: from the New Testament to the Liturgies of the Golden Age’, in Theological Studies 66, 2005, p. 3 ff.
‘the effect of. . .’ Colin J. Humphreys, The Mystery of the Last Supper: Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 55.
‘The only difference. . .’ Richard Dawkins, quoted in Humphreys, Mystery of the Last Supper, p. 1.
‘Insofar as the figure. . .’ Thomas L. Brodie, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery, Sheffield, Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012, p. 213.
‘The tragedy with the quest. . .’ Brodie, Ibid., p. 61.
‘Plagas, sicut Thomas. . .’ Thomas Aquinas, in The Penguin Book of Latin Verse, edited by Frederick Brittain, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1962, p. 258.
‘in testing the Gospels. . .’ Brodie, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus, p. 35.
Did not Paul. . . Many Christian scholars who do believe Paul existed question his authorship of Colossians.
‘To say Jesus. . .’ Brodie, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus, p. xiv.
‘Did it really happen?. . .’ Brodie, Ibid., p. 106.
7 THE REBIRTH OF IMAGES
‘A scene like. . .’ Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, translated by Willard R. Trask, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1953, p. 45.
‘John, he who leaned back. . .’ Translation of Eusebius of Caesarea, quoted in Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006, p. 439.
‘they may well. . .’ Richard Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy: Studies on the Book of Revelation, Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1993, p. 87.
‘I asked my mother. . .’ Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, London, Jonathan Cape, 2011, p. 33.
‘What book is it?. . .’ Austin Farrer, A Rebirth of Images: The Making of St John’s Apocalypse, London, Dacre Press, 1949, p. 43.