• The Selkie Wife

  • 2023/12/19
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  • Alicia explores the beautiful sadness of the Celtic folktale “The Selkie Wife”. Topics discussed include a Christian perspective on literary tragedy; the themes of exile, the stranger, and a dual nature; and ocean imagery in Scripture.

    Resources

    • Daniel Sarlo, entry for “Sea” in the Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2016
    • More resources on the Biblical image of the sea:
      • John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.
      • H.R. Balz and G. Schneider’s Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament, volume 2
      • Tsumura, David Toshio, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation.
      • Gunkel, Hermann. Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12.
    • The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
    • Song of the Sea (2014)
    • “The Music Man” musical
    • Ladies in Lavender (2004)
    • William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello,” and “Macbeth”
    • Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone”
    • Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus”
    • John Gardner: “There are only two plots in all of literature: 1) A person goes on a journey., 2) A stranger comes to town.”
    • Christianity and Literature 2017 conference, “Beauty in Exile,” Grove City College

    Music: Intro from Adam Saban’s “Tales from the Past”; episode segments from “West” by Shimmer

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Alicia explores the beautiful sadness of the Celtic folktale “The Selkie Wife”. Topics discussed include a Christian perspective on literary tragedy; the themes of exile, the stranger, and a dual nature; and ocean imagery in Scripture.

Resources

  • Daniel Sarlo, entry for “Sea” in the Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2016
  • More resources on the Biblical image of the sea:
    • John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.
    • H.R. Balz and G. Schneider’s Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament, volume 2
    • Tsumura, David Toshio, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation.
    • Gunkel, Hermann. Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12.
  • The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
  • Song of the Sea (2014)
  • “The Music Man” musical
  • Ladies in Lavender (2004)
  • William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello,” and “Macbeth”
  • Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone”
  • Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus”
  • John Gardner: “There are only two plots in all of literature: 1) A person goes on a journey., 2) A stranger comes to town.”
  • Christianity and Literature 2017 conference, “Beauty in Exile,” Grove City College

Music: Intro from Adam Saban’s “Tales from the Past”; episode segments from “West” by Shimmer

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