Aileen Guilding was Professor of Biblical History and Literature in the University of Sheffield from 1959 to 1965, and was known especially for her monograph The Fourth Gospel and Jewish Worship: A Study of the Relation of St. John's Gospel to the Ancient Jewish Lectionary System (Oxford, 1960), which enjoyed a succes d'estime in its day as an exceptionally fascinating and learned book. She is celebrated in Sheffield as the first female professor in the University; she was also the first woman to hold a chair in theology or religion in the United Kingdom. After her death at the age of 94 a...

This is the second volume of the new journal, Biblical Reception (BibRec), due to be published in November 2013. For the first volume, click here. Our policy for the journal is this. It is high time, we believe, for the new and burgeoning field of the reception of the Bible to have a publication medium of its own. What the biblical text has meant to its readers down the centuries should be as much the subject of scholarly attention as any 'original' meaning. Our new journal is a substantial annual volume covering all kinds of use of the Bible - in art, literature, music, film and popular...

ART Philip F. Esler, Pacino di Bonaguida's Tree of Life: Interpreting the Bible in Paint in Early Fourteenth-Century Italy Catherine C. Taylor, The Pignatta Sarcophagus: Late Antique Iconography and the Memorial Culture of Salvation Yaffa Englard, The Sixth Day of Creation: Literal Problems, Visual Expressions, and Theological Interpretations John Byron, Who Killed Cain? Interpretive Solutions to a Theological Problem Dan Rickett, The Art of Separation: Visual and Textual Exegesis of the Separation of Abram and Lot Kalle Lundahl, The Bible in Paintings by Mario Schifano and Vincent van Gogh...