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Between the Text and the Canvas: The Bible and Art in Dialogue

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Can a painting or illustration of a biblical scene help readers understand the Bible? Conversely, to what extent can knowledge about a biblical story help viewers appreciate an artist’s portrayal of it?

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Can a painting or illustration of a biblical scene help readers understand the Bible? Conversely, to what extent can knowledge about a biblical story help viewers appreciate an artist’s portrayal of it? Interpreting biblical art is more than a matter of asking whether or not an artist ‘got it right’ or ‘got it wrong’. This lively collection of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between the Bible and art that sees the biblical text and artistic representations of it as equal conversation partners. By looking at texts and canvases from different angles, the ten contributors to the volume reveal how biblical interpretation can shed important light on art, how art can contribute significantly to biblical interpretation and how each has something distinctive to offer to the interpretative task.

Contributions include J. Cheryl Exum on Solomon de Bray’s Jael, Deborah and Barak, Hugh S. Pyper on depictions of the relationship between David and Jonathan, Martin O’Kane on the biblical Elijah and his visual afterlives, Sally Norris on Chagall’s depiction of Ezekiel’s chariot vision, Christina Bucher on the Song of Songs and the enclosed garden motif in fifteenth-century paintings and engravings of Mary and the infant Jesus, Ela Nutu on differences in the way female and male artists have represented Judith, Christine E. Joynes on visualizations of Salome’s dance, Heidi J. Hornik on Michele Tosini’s Nativity,Way to Calvary and Crucifixion as visual narratives, Kelly J. Baker on Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Annunciation and Nicodemus, and Christopher Rowland on William Blake and the New Testament.

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  1. Hennie Stander, Review of Biblical Literature.

    It was a sheer pleasure to read this work. I wish each and every theologian who takes the reading of biblical texts seriously could read it. This book shows that artists, too, can be keen textual interpreters.

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Editors
J. Cheryl Exum, Ela Nutu
List Price
£45 / $85 / €67
Series
Bible in the Modern World, 13
Scholars' Price
£22.50 / $42 / €33.50
ISBN 13 hardback
978-1-906055-19-6
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£17.50 / $29 / €21
ISBN 13 Paperback
978-1-906055-91-2
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Hardback / Paperback
Page Extent
viii + 246
Publication Date
Dec-09
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