Richard Green Moulton

Richard Green Moulton
Richard Green Moulton (1849–1924) was a British literary scholar and professor who specialized in the study of literature and the Bible. He is best known for his works on the literary structure and interpretation of biblical texts, such as "The Literary Study of the Bible" (1895). Moulton's approach emphasized the Bible as a work of literature, focusing on its narrative, poetic, and dramatic elements. He also authored "The Modern Reader's Bible" (1907), which presented the Bible in a way accessible to modern readers, emphasizing its artistic and intellectual qualities.

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Introduction That which we call 'The Bible' has the outward appearance of a book: in reality it is—what the word 'bible' implies in the original Greek—a whole library. More than fifty books, the production of a large number of different authors, representing periods of time extending over many centuries, are all comprehended between the covers of a single volume. There is no... more...

MEMORANDUM The Sacred Legends touched by this Trilogy would be familiar, in outline, to the Auditors: e. g.: The woes of the House of Atreus: the foundation of them laid by Atreus when, to take vengeance on his brother Thyestes, he served up to him at a banquet the flesh of his own sons; His grandsons were Agamemnon and Menelaus: Menelaus' wife, Helen, was stolen by a guest, Paris of Troy, which... more...