Bible & Literature Essay Due by 12 pm tomorrow

In Judeo-Christian cultures, the Hebrew Bible has strongly influenced people’s understandings of themselves, relationships to others, definitions of well-ordered society, and the meaning of life. Because of their influence, writers such as Amelia Lanyer, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and Octavia Butler explicitly draw on biblical texts in order to protest ways that they believe society has misinterpreted, misused, or ignored their ideas of the books’ meanings. Choose at least two of our literary writers and explain how they draw upon biblical omissions, contradictions, and uncertainties and then correct and/or interpret those in order to engage readers in debates over the “nature” of women, relationships between men and women, and hierarchies of race, ethnicity, and class.