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A.J.C., “Kipling and the Bible,” The Kipling Journal, No. 21, March 1932, 26-8.
AMERY Leopold Stennet, The Kipling Journal, No. 26, June 1933, 59-61.
ANON., “The Limitations of Knowledge,” The Kipling Journal, No. 1, March 1927, 28.
ARCHIBALD Warren S., “Religion in Some Contemporary Poets,” The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan., 1914, 47-71.
BALDI Roberta, “The Story of Uriah,” The Kipling Society, June 5th, 2004; March 3rd, 2006, <http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_uriah1_p.htm>
GENETTE Gérard, Palimpsestes. La littérature au second degré, Paris : Seuil, 1982.
GILMOUR David, The Long Recessional. The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
GREENE B. A., “The Influence of the Authorized Version on English Literature,” The Biblical World, Vol. 37, No. 6, June 1911, 391-401.
GRIBBON Robert B., “The Bible, The Prayer Book and Rudyard Kipling,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 21 No. 109, April 1954, 3-6.
HANNAY James Owen, The Kipling Journal, No. 50, July 1939, 71-3.
HAWKINGS E. B., “Kipling and the School,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 7, No. 56, December 1940, 11-14.
HILL Edmonia, “The Young Kipling,” The Kipling Journal, No. 40, December 1936, 114.
HUMPHREYS W. Lee, “A Life-Style for Diaspora: A Study of the Tales of Esther and Daniel,” Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 92, No. 2, June 1973, 211-23.
KEMP Sandra and Lisa LEWIS (eds.), Writings on Writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
KENNEDY SKIPTON Horace Pitt, “Rudyard Kipling as a Patriot,” The Kipling Journal, No. 29, March 1934, 21-8.
KENYON John S., “Ye and You in the King James Version,” PMLA, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1914, 453-71.
KIPLING Rudyard, Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., London: W. Thacker & Co., 1890.
KIPLING Rudyard, “My First Book,” The Idler, Vol. 2, 1893, 477-82.
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MACDONALD FLEMING Alice, “My Brother Rudyard Kipling—Part II,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 15, No. 85, April 1948, 7-8.
MACMUNN George, “Kipling’s Use of the Old Testament”, The Kipling Journal, No. 32, December 1934, 110-18.
MALLET Philip, Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
MCFADYEN John E., “Communion with God in the Bible,” The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 4, Apr. 1909, 249-59.
MCFADYEN John E., “Communion with God in the Bible,” The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 1909, 389-98.
MOFFATT James, “Kipling and the Bible,” The Kipling Journal, No. 36, June 1935, 115-16.
PELLY Henry, 300,000 Sea Miles, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938.
PINNEY Thomas (ed.), The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Volume I 1872-1889, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990.
RICKETTS Harry, Rudyard Kipling. A Life, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000.
RUTHERFORD Andrew, “Carlyle and Kipling. Part I,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 33, No. 158, June 1966, 10-18.
RUTHERFORD Andrew (ed.), Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Notes
Following Greene’s critical approach in his article “The Influence of the Authorized Version on English Literature,” in which Kipling’s “Recessional” is quoted as an example, I refer to the King James Bible for comparisons and sources. (B. A. Greene, “The Influence of the Authorized Version on English Literature,” The Biblical World, Vol. 37, No. 6, June 1911, 391-401).
E. B. Hawkings, “Kipling and the School,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 7, No. 56, December 1940, 13; see also Harry Ricketts, Rudyard Kipling. A Life, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000, 27.
Edmonia Hill, “The Young Kipling,” The Kipling Journal, No. 40, December 1936, 114. The person Mrs. Hill is referring to is plausibly Mrs. Isabella Burton “identified with Mrs Hauksbee [...] heroine of a number of RK’s Simla stories” (Thomas Pinney (ed.), The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Volume I 1872-1889, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990, 144).
“To Augusta Tweddell” [10 July 1888], Ibid., 248.
Harry Ricketts, op. cit., 26.
A. J. C., “Kipling and the Bible,” The Kipling Journal, No. 21, March 1932, 28.
H. p. Kennedy Skipton, “Rudyard Kipling as a Patriot,” The Kipling Journal, No. 29, March 1934, 25.
Anon., “The Limitations of Knowledge,” The Kipling Journal, No. 1, March 1927, 28. This article contains Kipling’s entire poetic reply for the occasion.
E.B. Hawkings, op.cit., 13.
Harry Ricketts, Rudyard Kipling. A Life, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000, 331.
George MacMunn, “Kipling’s Use of the Old Testament,” The Kipling Journal, No. 32, December 1934, 112.
Warren S. Archibald, “Religion in Some Contemporary Poets,” The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan. 1914, 60. See also, among others: Robert B. Gribbon, “The Bible, The Prayer Book and Rudyard Kipling,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 21 No. 109, April 1954, 6.
The contributions on this aspect of Kipling’s work cited in this article necessarily represent only a set within a much vaster critical corpus that has been limited here by the criterion of strict relevance to the topics discussed.
Lecture by L. S. Amery at the Annual Conference Luncheon of the Kipling Society, 1933, The Kipling Journal, No. 26, June 1933, 59.
H. p. Kennedy Skipton, “Rudyard Kipling as a Patriot,” The Kipling Journal, No. 29, March 1934, 25, 26.
Discussion after George MacMunn’s lecture on “Kipling’s Use of the Old Testament,” The Kipling Journal, No. 32, December 1934, 119.
James Moffatt, “Kipling and the Bible,” The Kipling Journal, No. 36, June 1935, 115.
Robert B. Gribbon, op.cit., 3.
Lecture by J. O. Hannay at the Annual Luncheon of the Kipling Society, 1939, The Kipling Journal, No. 50, July 1939, 73.
In his article Gribbon reports that he was able to identify “248 Old Testament references (exclusive of the Psalms), 142 New Testament allusions [...] There are also 33 poems which have so much biblical language and atmosphere not readily assigned to specific texts that they may be classified as “general Bible background.” He also provides a list of the “distribution of his quotations: Genesis—45, Exodus—18, Leviticus—3, Numbers — 6, Deuteronomy — 8, Joshua—6, Judges—9, I Samuel to II Chronicles—34, Job—18, Proverbs—24, and one to four each from every other O. t. book, with a few exceptions. In the New Testament he quotes most liberally from the Gospels and Acts, and uses also all the Epistles (and Revelation)” (Robert B. Gribbon, op.cit., 4-5).
Ibid., 3.
Ibid., 5.
Gérard Genette, Palimpsestes. La littérature au second degré, Paris: Seuil, 1982, 8.
Ibid., 11-12.
Ibid., 12.
Ibid., 10.
Andrew Rutherford (ed.), Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, 33. The same passage reports that Kipling assigns this special definition to Departmental Ditties and Other Verses “since it was the first book that I myself published”.
First published in Lahore in 1886 and soon reaching its fourth (first English) edition in 1890.
Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself, For My Friends Known and Unknown, February 28th, 2006, <http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/SomethingOfMyself/myself_chap_3.html>.
Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., 1890, 10-1.
Harry Ricketts, op.cit., 90.
David Gilmour, The Long Recessional. The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, 35.
Rudyard Kipling, “My First Book,” The Idler, Vol. 2, 1893, 478.
David Gilmour, op.cit., 35.
Harry Ricketts, op.cit., 90.
OED online.
Roberta Baldi, “The Story of Uriah,” The Kipling Society, June 5th, 2004; March 3rd, 2006, <http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_uriah1_p.htm>.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary on CD-ROM, Job, Book of.
Harry Ricketts, op.cit., 90.
Ibidem.
Ibidem.
“Jobs” rhymes with the previous “throbs” (ll. 26, 28).
Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., 1890, 4-5.
“1. The Persian king who chose Esther [...]; 2. The father of Darius the Mede (Dan. 9:1) [...] 3. The ruler who helped Nebuchadnezzar destroy the city of Nineveh (Tob. 14:15)”. The Anchor Bible Dictionary, CD-ROM version, “Ahasuerus”.
Esther 1:1; 2:16–17, in particular.
Esther 8:2, in particular.
Henceforth, “Ah1.”
Henceforth, “Ah2.”
Esther 9:4 ; Esther 10:2-3 confirm “the greatness of Mordecai” and that he “was great among the Jews”, [my emphasis].
Esther 2: 7, [my emphasis].
W. Lee Humphreys, “A Life-Style for Diaspora: A Study of the Tales of Esther and Daniel,” Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 92, No. 2, June 1973, 218.
Ibid., 222.
Ibidem.
Ibid., 223.
The establishment of cultural parallelisms between biblical material and Kipling’s plots and characters has been widely emphasized; for instance, Ricketts reports the opinion of several critics affirming that “The Story of Uriah” “presented an Anglo-Indian equivalent” of the biblical tale. (Harry Ricketts, op.cit., 90).
“To Edith Macdonald, 4-5 December 1886,” in Thomas Pinney (ed.), op.cit., 139.
“To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886”, (Ibid., 136).
Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.), Writings on Writing by Rudyard Kipling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 26.
Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, op.cit., 1.
OEDonline.
Ibidem.
John S. Kenyon, “Ye and You in the King James Version,” PMLA, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1914, 467.
John 2:9; 4:46.
Just to mention a few: Genesis 14:18, Deuteronomy 29:6, Judges 19:19, 1 Chronicles 16:3, Psalm 104:15, Proverbs 9:5, Ecclesiastes 9:7, Daniel 10:3, Luke 7:33.
As recounted, for instance, in John 22:16-19, Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25.
John E. McFadyen, “Communion with God in the Bible,” The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 1909, 252.
John E. McFadyen, “Communion with God in the Bible,” The Biblical World, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 1909, 393.
Ibidem.
Robert B. Gribbon, op.cit., 6.
“To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886”, in Thomas Pinney (ed.), op.cit., 136.
Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.), op.cit., 25-26.
Ibid., 26.
Rudyard Kipling, “My First Book,” op.cit., 479.
Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.), op.cit., 26.
Warren S. Archibald, op.cit., 61.
Ibidem.
“To Edith Macdonald, 4-5 December 1886”, in Thomas Pinney (ed.), op.cit., 139.
“To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886”, (Ibid., 136).
Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis (eds.), op.cit., 26.
OEDonline.
OED online. This sense is for instance focused in “1879 Maclear, Celts viii. 133 The Old and New Testaments, in the form of a Bibliotheca, or Bible” (Ibidem).
George MacMunn, op.cit., 112.
Henry Pelly, 300,000 Sea Miles, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, 58.
Ibidem.This aspect is particularly evident in the above mentioned “The Story of Uriah” in which “Jack Barrett’s story, the title suggests, is an ancient one, re-told as often as wives are faithless and superiors vile”. (Philip Mallet, Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Life, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 26).
James Moffatt, “Kipling and the Bible,” The Kipling Journal, No. 36, June 1935, 116.
Andrew Rutherford, “Carlyle and Kipling,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 33, No. 158, June 1966, 18.
H. p. Kennedy Skipton, op.cit., 25.
Alice Macdonald Fleming, “My Brother Rudyard Kipling—Part II,” The Kipling Journal, Vol. 15, No. 85, April 1948, 7. “This is the second part of Mrs. Fleming's broadcast of August 19th, 1947” (Ibidem).
Robert B. Gribbon, op.cit., 3.
Ibid., 6.
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