'Und blatterte ein wenig in der Bibel': Studien zu Franz Kafkas Bibellekture und ihren Auswirkungen auf sein Werk.(Recht ist ein 'Prozess': Uber Kafkas Rechtsphilosophie)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-04

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'Und blatterte ein wenig in der Bibel': Studien zu Franz Kafkas Bibellekture und ihren Auswirkungen auf sein Werk. By BERTRAM ROHDE. (Epistemata Literaturwissenschaft, 390) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2002. 220 pp. 35 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-2235-1 (pbk).

Recht ist ein 'Prozess': Uber Kafkas Rechtsphilosophie. By JANKO FERK. Vienna: Manz. 1999. x+116 pp. 348 Sch. ISBN 3-214-06528-9 (pbk).

So much attention has been paid in the past two decades to Kafka's Jewish identity that we risk forgetting how wide and eclectic his interest in religion was, and how much he engaged with aspects of Christianity. The first half of Bertram Rohde's study makes strong claims for the impact on Kafka's work of his intermittent reading in the New Testament. He seems first to have read the...

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