Reluctant Prophets

About this Episode

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