The Edinburgh companion to the Bible and the arts / edited by Stephen Prickett.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2014.
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1 online resource

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • INSPIRATION AND THEORY
  • 'What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?' The Biblical Chain-Gang / Stephen Prickett
  • Hebrew Aesthetics and Jewish Biblical Exegesis / Mordechai Z. Cohen
  • Migne's Achievement and the Modern Transmission of Ancient Manuscripts / D.H. Williams
  • Augustine on Beauty : a Biblical Aesthetics / David Lyle Jeffrey
  • Sublimity and Resistance to Form in the Early Modern Bible / Anthony Ossa-Richardson
  • 'A Babel of Bibles' : Aesthetics, Translation and Interpretation since 1885 / Nicholas Bielby
  • Lest the Story be Lost : Biblical Fiction / David Dickinson
  • The Bible and Phenomenology / Kevin Hart
  • ART AND ARCHITECTURE
  • The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art / Robin M. Jensen
  • Images of Conflict : the art of Anti-Judaism in Fifth Century Rome / Geri Parlby
  • A Shared Tradition : The Decorated Pages of Medieval Bibles and Qurʹans / Vivian B. Mann
  • Speaking Pictures : Medieval Religious Art and its Viewers / Charles Moseley
  • The Iconography of the Cross as the Tree of Life / Christopher Irvine
  • Art and the Resurrection Narrative / Christopher Herbert
  • Covenants and Connections : the Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita : Scenes from the Life of St Francis, Ghirlandaio, 180-85 / Chloë Reddaway
  • Who Framed Bathsheba? / Vivienne Westbrook
  • The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel : Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome / Shirley Smith
  • The Materiality and Iconography of the Coverdale Bible (1535) Title Page in Context / Mark Rankin and Guido Latré
  • Moses in Eighteenth Century Art / Nigel Aston
  • Blake : Text and Image / Christopher Rowland
  • 'For Thine is the Kingdom' : Portraying the Bible in Nineteenth-Century Stained Glass / Christopher Rogers
  • Van Gogh : Framing a Biblical Vision / Daphne Lawson
  • Coventry Cathedral : Conception and Reality / Sarah Hosking
  • LITERATURE
  • Sacred Poetry : Watts and Wesley / J.R. Watson
  • The Bible Interpreted by Hymns / Robin Gill
  • The Art of Unveiling : Biblical Apocalypse / Christopher Burdon
  • The Divine Comedy as the Word of God / Patricia Erskine-Hill
  • The Medieval Bible as Literature / Alastair Minnis and A.B. Kraebel
  • Homer Writes Back : Rhetorical Art and Biblical Epic Justice in Paradise Lost / Phillip J. Donnelly
  • Biblical and Seventeenth-Century Poetry : The Case of the Psalms and George Herbert / Christopher Hodgkins
  • From Virtue to Goodness : Biblical Values in Victorian Literature / Jan-Melissa Schramm
  • The Mirror of the Law of Liberty : Reflecting the Hidden Christ in George Macdonald's Lilith / Bethany Bear
  • Figurative Literalism : The Image of the Creator in Nineteenth-Century British Literature / Norbert Lennartz
  • From Satire to Sanctity : The Prophetic Books in T.S. Eliot's Poetry / Jan Gorak
  • Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama / James Alexander.
ISBN
  • 9781474471794 (electronic bk.)
  • 147447179X (electronic bk.)
OCLC
1145341381
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