Contributions

  • Müller-Sievers, Helmut, translator - Contributor
  • Fleming, Paul, 1968- translator - Contributor

Publication

2021 - Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, Ithaca [New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101501705806
  • ISBN-139781501705809
  • ISBN-139781501759079
  • ISBN-139781501759062
  • ISBN-101501759078
and 5 more

Classifications

  • DDC226.2/06
  • LCCBT430 .B5713 2021
  • LCCBT430.B5713 2021

Description

"This book of biblical scholarship explores the passion story in its four very distinct Gospel versions alongside its musical appropriation by Johann Sebastian Bach's in his oratorio. It probes the founding myth of the Christian West as not merely the sacrifice of a god (by a god), but also the abandonment of a son by a father, due to a creation gone awry that left humanity to fend on its own"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Signale / TRANSFER
  • Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

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