LEADER 05359nam 2200445 i 4500001 99125796299506421 005 20220906231059.0 006 a o d |||| | 007 cr#cnu|||||||| 008 200618s2014 stkaf ob 001 0 eng d 019 (OCoLC)1302164253 020 1-4744-7179-X 024 7 10.1515/9781474471794 |2doi 035 (CKB)4100000010673905 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC6141433 035 (DE-B1597)619380 035 (DE-B1597)9781474471794 035 (OCoLC)1301546402 035 (EXLCZ)994100000010673905 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 044 stk |cGB-SCT 050 4 BS680.A77 |b.E356 2014 072 7 LIT012000 |2bisacsh 082 0 261.57 |223 082 700.5 100 1 Prickett, Stephen, |eauthor. |4aut |4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 245 04 The Edinburgh companion to the Bible and the arts / |cedited by Stephen Prickett. 264 1 Edinburgh : |bEdinburgh University Press, |c[2014] 264 4 |c©2014 300 1 online resource (xxxi, 576 pages), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 0 Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities 588 Description based on print version record. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 An authoritative assessment of the changing relationship between the Bible and the artsIn this unique Companion, 35 scholars, from world-famous to just beginning, explore the role of the Bible in art and of artistic motifs in the Bible. Specially commissioned chapters demonstrate that just as the arts have portrayed biblical stories in a variety of ways and media over the centuries, so what we call ‘the’ Bible is not actually a single entity but has been composed of fiercely contested translations of texts in many languages, whose selection has depended historically on a variety of cultural pressures, theological, social, and, not least, aesthetic.Key FeaturesDivided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and LiteratureGenerously illustratedCovers aesthetic interpretations of specific biblical books; of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles as a whole; the transmission of biblical texts; various bindings and illustrations of Bibles – in response to pressures as diverse as Islamic craftsmanship and the English ReformationIncludes biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literatureSpans the earliest days of the Christian era to the present 505 00 |tFrontmatter -- |tCONTENTS -- |tACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- |tFIGURES -- |tPLATES -- |tCONTRIBUTORS -- |t1 INTRODUCTION -- |tI: Inspiration and Theory -- |t2 ‘WHAT HAS ATHENS TO DO WITH JERUSALEM?’ THE BIBLICAL CHAIN-GANG -- |t3 HEBREW AESTHETICS AND JEWISH BIBLICAL EXEGESIS -- |t4 MIGNE’S ACHIEVEMENT AND THE MODERN TRANSMISSION OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS -- |t5 AUGUSTINE ON BEAUTY: A BIBLICAL AESTHETICS -- |t6 SUBLIMITY AS RESISTANCE TO FORM IN THE EARLY MODERN BIBLE -- |t7 ‘A BABEL OF BIBLES’: AESTHETICS, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SINCE 1885 -- |t8 LEST THE STORY BE LOST: BIBLICAL FICTION -- |t9 THE BIBLE AND PHENOMENOLOGY -- |tII: Art and Architecture -- |t10 THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN EARLY CHRISTIAN ART -- |t11 IMAGES OF CONFLICT: THE ART OF ANTI-JUDAISM IN FIFTH-CENTURY ROME -- |t12 A SHARED TRADITION: THE DECORATED PAGES OF MEDIEVAL BIBLES AND QUR’ANS -- |t13 SPEAKING PICTURES: MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS ART AND ITS VIEWERS -- |t14 THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE CROSS AS THE GREEN TREE -- |t15 ART AND THE RESURRECTION NARRATIVES -- |t16 COVENANTS AND CONNECTIONS: THE SASSETTI CHAPEL, SANTA TRINITA: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF ST FRANCIS, GHIRLANDAIO, 1479–85 -- |t17 WHO FRAMED BATHSHEBA? -- |t18 THE FRESCO DECORATION IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL: BIBLICAL AUTHORITY AND THE CHURCH OF ROME -- |t19 THE MATERIALITY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF THE COVERDALE BIBLE (1535) TITLE PAGE IN CONTEXT -- |t20 MOSES AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RELIGIOUS ART -- |t21 BLAKE: TEXT AND IMAGE -- |t22 ‘FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM’: PORTRAYING THE BIBLE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY STAINED GLASS -- |t23 VAN GOGH: FRAMING A BIBLICAL VISION -- |t24 COVENTRY CATHEDRAL: CONCEPT, REASONS AND REALITY -- |tIII: Literature -- |t25 SACRED POETRY: WATTS AND WESLEY -- |t26 THE BIBLE INTERPRETED BY HYMNS -- |t27 THE ART OF UNVEILING: BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE -- |t28 THE DIVINE COMEDY AS THE WORD OF GOD -- |t29 THE MEDIEVAL BIBLE AS LITERATURE -- |t30 HOMER WRITES BACK: RHETORICAL ART AND BIBLICAL EPIC JUSTICE IN PARADISE LOST -- |t31 BIBLICAL AND SEVENTEENTHCENTURY POETRY: THE CASE OF THE PSALMS AND GEORGE HERBERT -- |t32 FROM VIRTUE TO GOODNESS: BIBLICAL VALUES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE -- |t33 THE MIRROR OF THE LAW OF LIBERTY: REFLECTING THE HIDDEN CHRIST IN GEORGE MACDONALD’S LILITH -- |t34 FIGURATIVE LITERALISM: THE IMAGE OF THE CREATOR IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE -- |t35 FROM SATIRE TO SANCTITY: THE PROPHETIC BOOKS IN T. S. ELIOT’S POETRY -- |t36 IMITATIO PILATI ET CHRISTI IN MODERN HISTORICAL DRAMA -- |tINDEX 650 0 Arts in the Bible. 650 0 Christian art and symbolism. 650 0 Christian drama in art. 776 |z0-7486-3933-0 700 1 Prickett, Stephen, |eeditor. 906 BOOK