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- Title
The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament.
- Authors
Camus, Cyril
- Abstract
The article discusses the ways in which Jewish-English comic book writer Neil Gaiman directly engages with themes of Jewish identity and alterity in a number of his works by utilizing themes from the Old Testament. The author specifically examines Gaiman's comic book series "Sandman" and his various contributions made to the British comic anthology "Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament," contrasting the former's treatment of Jewish myth with the latter's satirical depictions of Old Testament characters. Gaiman's use of Midrash, a rabbinic method of studying the Old Testament, is explained as well.
- Subjects
GAIMAN, Neil, 1960-; COMIC book writers; JEWISH identity; MIDRASH; OLD Testament criticism &; interpretation; BRITISH Jews; SATIRE; JEWISH mythology; OTHER (Philosophy)
- Publication
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
0882-8539
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sho.2011.0051