Origins of Narrative

During The Later Eighteenth Century The Bible Underwent A Shift In Interpretation So Radical As To Make It Virtually A Different Book From What It Had Been A Hundred Years Earlier. Even As Historical Criticism Suggested That The Bible''S Text Was Neither Stable Nor Original The New Notion Of The Bible As A Cultural Artifact Became A Paradigm Of All Literature. Not Merely Was English German And French Romanticism Steeped In Biblical References Of A New Kind But Theories Of Literature And Criticism Came To Be Biblically Derived.