December 2018

THE BIBLE IN CRIME FICTION AND DRAMA - DAY CONFERENCE

Event date: 
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Location: 
New College

THE BIBLE IN CRIME FICTION AND DRAMA - DAY CONFERENCE

Keynote speaker: Professor Liam McIlvanney, University of Otago and author of 'The Quaker', winner of the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2018.

About the event

The Bible has always enjoyed notoriety within the genres of crime fiction and drama; numerous authors have drawn on biblical traditions as thematic foci to explore social anxieties about violence, religion, and the search for justice and truth.