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As a Biblical story, modernized and re-told, the opera Susannah is one in all many such tales, corresponding to:

  

John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, which retells the Cain and Abel parable within the Twentieth-century American West.

 

Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which retells a narrative from the Book of Genesis.

 

The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain, a pleasant updating of the Biblical creation story, which in flip grew to become a part of a beautiful Jerry Bock musical, The Apple Tree.

 

The Red Tent, a novel by Anita Diamant that reimagines the story of Dinah within the Book of Genesis.

 

God’s Favorite, Neil Simon’s pleasant 1974 play primarily based on the Book of Job.

 

One of probably the most influential books in American spiritual historical past, Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur, which tells a narrative parallel to Biblical tales of Jesus. The character of Judah Ben-Hur has change into so ubiquitous in well-known movies that for a lot of he’s now not fictional, however historic.

 

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis, which tells the story of Christ’s crucifixion in allegory.

 

Mikhail Bulgakov’s extraordinary—and really controversial—Russian novel, The Master and Margarita, written between 1928 and 1940, which satirizes Russian forms, is now extensively thought of one of many nice novels in any language. It can also be some of the complicated, however extremely rewarding for these desirous about Biblical allegories.