Dec 18 2023 30 mins
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