摘要
诺斯洛普．弗莱研究圣经与文学的第一部书是《伟大的代码》，较之论述圣经本身，该书更多地显示出弗莱文学批评的性质。依弗莱之见，文学著作是一种“为其自身目的而存在的语词结构＂，有一种自我指涉性质；圣经作为一部富含隐喻及其他形象类型的文本，正是这样一种结构；由此，它成为西方文学中“神话世界＂的源头。从这一影响深远的见解出发，弗莱提供了一系列示意图，以求解释圣经的设计和目的。不论从语言学理论还是从圣经学术的观点看，他那些见解都是有问题的，这使他对圣经文本做出了系统的错误陈述。尤应指出的是，他的阅读在某种形式上恢复了基督教的取代论，将希伯来经典从其复杂多变的特定实现方式中分离出来。
並列摘要
Northrop Frye's first book on the Bible and literature. The Great Code, dis closes more about the nature of Frye's literary criticism than it does about the Bible itself. According to Frye, a literary work is ＂a verbal structure existing for its own sake＂. It has a self-referential character. The Bible, as a text in which metaphor and other kinds of figuration predominate, is just such a structure and, as such, has served as the origin of Western literature's ＂mythological universe＂. Arguing from this far-reaching claim, Frye offers a series of schemata that seek to explain the design and purpose of the Bible. However, his claims are questionable from the point of view of both literary theory and biblical scholarship, and they lead him systematically to misrepresent biblical texts. In particular, his readings revive a form of Christian supersessionism that detaches the Hebrew Scriptures from the shifting complications of their densely particular realizations.