The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780748639335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 608 str.

Stephen Prickett

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Presents original and authoritative assessments of the changing relationship between the Bible and the arts

In 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. The 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.

Divided into 3 sections, Inspiration and Theory, Art and Architecture, and Literature, this generously illustrated collection includes a wide spectrum of thoughtful essays on 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 Reformation; as well as biblical influences on poetry, painting, church architecture, decoration, and stained glass; on poetry, hymns, novels, plays, and fantasy literature from the earliest days of the Christian era to the present.

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Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction, Stephen Prickett; INSPIRATION AND THEORY; 2. ‘What has Athens to do with Jerusalem ?’ The Biblical Chain-Gang, Stephen Prickett; 3. Hebrew Aesthetics and Jewish Biblical Exegesis, Mordechai Z. Cohen; 4. Migne’s Achievement and the Modern Transmission of Ancient Manuscripts, Dan Williams; 5. Augustine on Beauty: a Biblical Aesthetics, David Lyle Jeffrey; 6. Sublimity and Resistance to Form in the Early Modern Bible, Anthony Ossa-Richardson; 7. ‘A Babel of Bibles’: Aesthetics, Translation and Interpretation since 1885, Nicholas Bielby; 8. Lest the Story be Lost: Biblical Fiction, David Dickinson; 9. The Bible and Phenomenology, Kevin Hart; ART AND ARCHITECTURE; 10. The Gospel of John in Early Christian Art, Robin Margaret Jensen; 11. Images of Conflict: the art of Anti-Judaism in Fifth Century Rome, Geri Parlby; 12. A Shared Tradition: The Decorated Pages of Medieval Bibles and Qur’ans, Vivian B. Mann; 13. Speaking Pictures: Mediaeval Religious Art and its Viewers, Charles Moseley; 14. The Iconography of the Cross as the Tree of Life, Christopher Irvine; 15. Art and the Resurrection Narrative, Christopher Herbert; 16. Covenants and Connections: the Sassetti Chapel at Santa Trinita, Chloë Reddaway; 17. Who Framed Bathsheba? Vivienne Westbrook; 18. The Fresco Decoration in the Sistine Chapel: Biblical Authority and the Church of Rome, Shirley Smith; 19. The Materiality and Iconography of the Coverdale Bible (1535), Mark Rankin and Guido Latré; 20. Moses in Eighteenth Century Art, Nigel Aston; 21. Blake: Text and Image, Christopher Rowland; 22. The Angel in the Detail: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Christopher Rogers; 23. Framing the Vision: Biblical Imagery in the Work of Van Gogh, Daphne Lawson; 24. Coventry Cathedral: Conception and Reality, Sarah Hosking; HYMNS; 25. Hymns of the Wesleys, J.R. Watson; 26. The Bible Interpreted by Hymns, Robin Gill; LITERATURE; 27. The Art of Unveiling: Biblical Apocalypse, Christopher Burdon; 28. The Divine Comedy as the Word of God, Patricia Erskine-Hill; 29. The Mediaeval Bible as Literature, Alastair Minnis & Andrew Kraebel; 30. Homer Writes Back: Rhetorical Art and Biblical Epic Justice in Paradise Lost, Book 1, Phillip Donnelly; 31. Heart-Deep: The Psalms and George Herbert, Christopher Hodgkins; 32. From Virtue to Goodness: Biblical Values in Victorian Literature, Jan-Melissa Schramm; 33. The Mirror of the Law of Liberty: Reflecting the Hidden Christ in George Macdonald’s Lilith, Bethany Bear; 34. Images of the Creator/Creation from Frankenstein to Nietzsche, Norbert Lennartz; 35. Eliot Among the Theologians, Jan Gorak; 36. Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama, James Alexander.