Beyond the biblical horizon : the Bible and the arts
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Beyond the biblical horizon : the Bible and the arts
Brill, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in relating the Bible to the worlds of literature and the visual arts. How is the Bible portrayed in the arts and how do the arts affect what we know, or think we know, about the Bible? In this provocative and wide-ranging collection, the eight contributors engage in a lively and fruitful conversation with the work of novelists, artists, filmmakers, and critics. Topics treated in this collection include the Bible and film, from Frank Capra movies of the 30s and 40s to such Hollywood epics as The Robe and The Ten Commandments; the Bible and literature, focusing particularly on the story of David and Bathsheba in recent fiction; and the Bible and painting, with specific studies of Rembrandt as painter and etcher and the twentieth-century German artist Lovis Corinth and more generalized discussion of paintings of King David throughout the centuries and the representation of the sexuality of Jesus in Renaissance art.
Contributors include Joel Rosenberg, Erica Sheen, Martin O'Kane, Ilse Mullner, Johannes Taschner, Clive Marsh, J. Cheryl Exum, and David Jasper.
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction
Beyond the Biblical Horizon: The Bible and the Arts, J. CHERYL EXUM
The Bible and Film
What the Bible and Old Movies Have in Common, JOEL ROSENBERG
'The Light of God's Law: Violence and Metaphysics in the 50's Widescreen Biblical Epic', ERICA SHEEN
The Bible, Painting and Literature: David and Bathsheba
The Biblical King David and His Artistic and Literary Afterlives, MARTIN O'KANE
Blickwechsel: Batseba und David in Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts, ILSE MULLNER
The Bible and Painting & Etching
Mit wem ringt Jakob in der Nacht? Oder: Der Versuch, mit Rembrandt eine Leerstelle auszuleuchten, JOHANNES TASCHNER
Rembrandt the Etcher: Mission and Commission as Factors in New Testament Interpretation, CLIVE MARSH
Lovis Corinth's Blinded Season, J. CHERYL EXUM
Review Essay
In the Beginning Was the World? Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, DAVID JASPER
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