Now available on Sheffield Phoenix Press’s website, Good Omens and the Bible, edited by Meredith J. C. Warren, Shayna Sheinfeld, and Charlotte Naylor Davis, provides a diversely rich collection of considerations of apocalypse and apocalypticism, via responses to the reception of the Bible in the landmark cultural icon that is Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990). These essays explore the perplexing, captivating, and curious interactions between Good Omens and biblical literature.
Interdisciplinary explorations reveal how both the novel and TV series reflects and explodes contemporary ideas about the end times. Filtering references to biblical apocalypses through the lens of popular culture, Good Omens shines a light on the received interpretations of apocalyptic thinking that resonate in the present, revealing in turn something about ourselves.
Together, these essays open up conversations about how Good Omens makes use of religious ideas about textuality, performance, theodicy, and the role of popular culture in the proliferation of those conversations. This book illustrates the ways in which the novel and series are agents in the continuation of cultural debates about important, wide-ranging theological and biblical issues.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Meredith J.C. Warren, Clair Budd, and Shayna Sheinfeld
- “The Adaptation Cycle: The Intertextual Links between Good Omens, The Omen, and The Bible” by Sarah Milner
- “Food Omens: Sushi and the Transformational Effects of Otherworldly Food” by Meredith J.C. Warren
- “The Key to the Locks: Good Omens’ Hair and the Nature of Good and Evil” by Sara Ronis
- “Cursing Women in Good Omens and the Book of Revelation” by Benedict Kent
- “Compassion versus Obedience in Good Omens and Genesis” by Susan E. Haddox
- “God’s Ineffable Plan Versus the Great Plan: Subverting Apocalypse in 1 Enoch, the Bible and Good Omens” by Steven Tuell
- “The Impossible Possibility in Good Omens and Ancient Jewish Ethical Dualism” by Krista N. Dalton
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