Reading Scripture, reading Lewis.
Leslie Baynes is a scholar of the New Testament and Second Temple Judaism whose work ranges from ancient apocalyptic literature to the Christian imagination of the twentieth century — from 1 Enoch to Narnia, often in the same week.
Professor of Religious Studies at Missouri State University. Translator for the Catholic American Bible (CAB), 2027.
Between Interpretation & Imagination
C. S. Lewis and the Bible
Drawing on never-before-published marginalia from Lewis’s personal library, alongside his letters, essays, and fiction, Between Interpretation and Imagination is the first full-length study of Lewis’s engagement with Scripture — and the first to treat him with the scholarly seriousness he both demanded and deserved.
“A first-rate study that, by turns, chides, challenges, and champions Lewis’s various approaches to the Bible. Scholarly and spirited, this is easily the best book yet written on Lewis and Scripture.”Michael Ward — University of Oxford
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