Yours Faithfully: Virtual Letters from the Bible

by Davies,Philip R.

• ISBN13: 9781904768319
• ISBN10: 1904768318
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-08-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Yours Faithfully is an anthology of virtual letters from the Bible, in which leading biblical scholars have composed imagined correspondence between characters from scripture. This collection is meant not only to entertain, but also to convey the insights that each author has into the world and the discourse of the Bible and its cast. These letters range between a strictly historical mode and a contemporary idiom, and embrace the serious and the playful. But in every case the aim is to offer a commentary on familiar texts and events by filling in some of the gaps that are left, and both build upon and expand a long tradition of "retelling" the Bible.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: IN PRAISE OF VIRTUAL LETTERS	vii
1. Sarah to Abraham	1	(4)
2. Isaac to Abraham	5	(18)
3. Sarah to Rebekah	23	(4)
4. Pharaoh Ramses to Moses	27	(6)
5. Aaron to Miriam	33	(8)
6. Jephthah's Daughter to her Father	41	(4)
7. Samson to Delilah	45	(6)
8. Shmuel ben Elkanah to Achish	51	(6)
9. Absalom to David	57	(4)
10. Salu Father of Zimri to Zur Father of Cozbi	61	(4)
11. Ahitophel to Absalom	65	(4)
12. Ahitophel to Eliam, his Son	69	(6)
13. King Ahab to his Steward Obadiah	75	(4)
14. King Ahab to the Writers of the Books of Kings	79	(6)
15. Athaliah to Elijah the Tishbite	85	(4)
16. The Big Fish to Jonah	89	(2)
17. Nineveh to Judah	91	(6)
18. Jeremiah to Ezekiel	97	(6)
19. Between Zedekiah and Jeremiah	103	(6)
20. Haggai to Zechariah	109	(2)
21. Zechariah to Haggai	111	(2)
22. Esther to her Mother	113	(4)
23. John the Baptizer to Jesus	117	(4)
24. Jesus to his Mother	121	(6)
25. Judas Iscariot to James; James to his Family	127	(4)
26. From a Greek Woman of Tyre to Jairus of Galilee	131	(4)
27. Pilate's Wife to her Husband	135	(2)
28. Publius Philostratus to an Author	137	(4)
29. Onesimus to Paul	141	(6)
30. 'Jezebel' of Thyatira to John of Patmos	147	(6)
31. Letter to Bible Authors [Draft]	153	(6)
List of Authors	159