How Long to Read An Unsuitable Book

How Long Does it Take to Read An Unsuitable Book?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read An Unsuitable Book by Hugh S. Pyper

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The real 'scandal' of the Bible, suggests Hugh Pyper, lies not in any salaciousness it may contain but in its deep impropriety as a venerable book, and the 'unsuitability' of its reality to the expectations of its readers. This collection of essays, published and previously unpublished, will delight readers with its wit and profundity. Among them, 'The Selfish Text: Memetics and the Bible' deploys Richard Dawkins's notion of memes to advance the half-teasing, half-serious thesis that western culture is the Bible's way of making more Bibles, 'The Bible in Bloom' examines the usefulness or otherwise of Bloom's concept of the 'anxiety of influence' in biblical studies, and 'The Bible as Wolf: Tracking a Carrollian Metaphor in Biblical Studies', a tribute to Robert Carroll, the author's mentor, uncovers the polyvalence of the wolf metaphor in biblical and literary traditions and calls for the recovery of the 'wild' text. Other papers are on women and silence (with a nod to Isak Dinesen and to Freud), on the violence in Lamentations as a deflection of anger from God and so a survival strategy for the community, and on modern 'gospels of Judas' which symptomize resentment against the canon.

How long is An Unsuitable Book?

An Unsuitable Book by Hugh S. Pyper is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read An Unsuitable Book Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read An Unsuitable Book aloud.

What Reading Level is An Unsuitable Book?

An Unsuitable Book is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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