Overview
An authoritative assessment 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.
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Author: Stephen Prickett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399544030
ISBN 10: 1399544039
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 30 November 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
A companion of great range and depth--Paul Ellingworth ""METHODIST RECORDER"" The subject may be vast, but this collection is an invaluable contribution, which lends light on the mysterious, beautiful, and profound ways the arts and the Bible have informed each other and how together they help us understand the ""human situation"" more fully.--Michael Heath, Columbia sc ""Religion and the Arts"" The vital and continuing relationship between the Bible and the Arts is amply demonstrated in this collection of remarkably wide-ranging essays and text-specific illustrations. General readers will enjoy its accessibly-presented, fresh perspectives, while scholars will wish to keep this treasure-house of illuminating scholarship close at hand.-- ""Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University""
"A companion of great range and depth--Paul Ellingworth ""METHODIST RECORDER"" The subject may be vast, but this collection is an invaluable contribution, which lends light on the mysterious, beautiful, and profound ways the arts and the Bible have informed each other and how together they help us understand the ""human situation"" more fully.--Michael Heath, Columbia sc ""Religion and the Arts"" The vital and continuing relationship between the Bible and the Arts is amply demonstrated in this collection of remarkably wide-ranging essays and text-specific illustrations. General readers will enjoy its accessibly-presented, fresh perspectives, while scholars will wish to keep this treasure-house of illuminating scholarship close at hand.-- ""Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University"""
Author Information
Stephen Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English, at the University of Glasgow and honorary Professor of English at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He has also taught at the Universities of Sussex, the Australian National University in Canberra, Duke University, and Baylor University, where he was Director of the Armstrong Browning Library. He has published one novel, nine monographs, seven edited volumes, and over ninety articles on Romanticism, Victorian Studies and literature and theology.
