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Books

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Braswell, William. Melville's Religious Thought: An Essay in Interpretation. New York: Pageant Books, 1959.

 

Cook, Jonathan. Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of Moby-Dick. DeKalb, IL: NIU Press, 2012.

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Thompson, Lawrance Roger. Melville's Quarrel with God. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952

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Articles

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Behnken, Eloise M. "Joban Theme In Moby Dick." Iliff Review 33.3 (1976): 37-48. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials. Web. 7 Sept. 2016.

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Booth, Thornton Y. "Moby Dick: Standing Up to God." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 17.1 (1962): 33-43. Web.

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Gallagher, Susan VanZanten. "The Prophetic Narrator Of Moby-Dick." Christianity And Literature 36.3 (1987): 11-25. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials. Web. 7 Sept. 2016.

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Goering, Wynn M. ""To Obey, Rebelling": The Quaker Dilemma in Moby-Dick." The New England Quarterly 54.4 (1981): 519-38. Web.

 

Herbert, T. Walter. "Calvinism and Cosmic Evil in "Moby-Dick"" PMLA 84.6 (1969): 1613-619. Web.

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Lackey, Kris. ""More Spiritual Tenors": The Bible and Gothic Imagination in "Moby-Dick"" South Atlantic Review 52.2 (1987): 37-50. Web.

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Steven, Olsen-Smith. "The hymn in Moby-Dick: Melville's adaptation of Psalm 18." Leviathan, vol. 5, no. 1, 2003, p. 29+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=nysl_me_concoll&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA104610470&asid=9d0a58d992eb341a83be5a4098559a63. Accessed 12 Jan. 2017.

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Schneider, Herbert N., and Homer B. Pettey. "MELVILLE'S ICHTHYPHALLIC GOD." Studies in American Fiction, vol. 26, no. 2, 1998, p. 193. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=nysl_me_concoll&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA54330238&asid=9b93380192802be6053bdaf833b033b2. Accessed 12 Jan. 2017.

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Sloan, Gary. "Moby dick: broiled in hellfire. (Humanism and The Arts)." Free Inquiry, Summer 2002, p. 62+. Academic OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=nysl_me_concoll&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA87707977&sid=AONE&asid=b066ef0534df68387d3c6e831bf1304a. Accessed 12 Jan. 2017.

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Stout, Janis. "Melville's Use of the Book of Job." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 25.1 (1970): 69-83. Web.

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Vargish, Thomas. "Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick." PMLA 81.3 (1966): 272-77. Web

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Weinstein, Jacob J. "Moby Dick And The Parable Of Jonah." The Reconstructionist 14.18 (1949): 10-13. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials. Web. 7 Sept. 2016.

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Wright, Nathalia. "Biblical Allusion in Melville's Prose." American Literature 12.2 (1940): 185-99. Web.

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Wright, Nathalia. "Moby Dick: Jonah's or Job's Whale?" American Literature 37.2 (1965): 190-95. Web.

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Further Readings: JSTOR Database Search on Moby Dick and Religion

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Further Readings: JSTOR Database Search on Moby Dick and the Bible

 

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