Alicia explores the beautiful sadness of the Celtic folktale “The Selkie Wife”. Topics discussed include a Christian perspective on literary tragedy; the themes of exile, the stranger, and a dual nature; and ocean imagery in Scripture. ResourcesDaniel Sarlo, entry for “Sea” in the Lexham Bible Dictionary, 2016More resources on the Biblical image of the sea: John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.H.R. Balz and G. Schneider’s Exegetical dictionary of the New Testament, volume 2Tsumura, David Toshio, The Earth and the Waters in Genesis 1 and 2: A Linguistic Investigation.Gunkel, Hermann. Creation and Chaos in the Primeval Era and the Eschaton: A Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 1 and Revelation 12. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)Song of the Sea (2014)“The Music Man” musicalLadies in Lavender (2004)William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello,” and “Macbeth”Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Antigone”Christopher Marlowe’s “The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus”John Gardner: “There are only two plots in all of literature: 1) A person goes on a journey., 2) A stranger comes to town.” Christianity and Literature 2017 conference, “Beauty in Exile,” Grove City CollegeMusic: Intro from Adam Saban’s “Tales from the Past”; episode segments from “West” by Shimmer

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