Retellings : the Bible in literature, music, art and film / edited by J. Cheryl Exum.

Contributor(s):

Exum, J. Cheryl

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789047440123
9047440129
900416572X
9789004165724
1281937398
9781281937391
9786611937393
6611937390

Uniform titles:

Biblical interpretation.

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Retellings.DDC classification:

700/.4822 22

LOC classification:

BS538.7 .R48 2007eb

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Contents:

Noah's ark and Mrs. Monkey / Francis Landy -- Jephthah's daughter as object of desire or feminist icon / Mikael Sjöberg -- Latecomers: four novelists rewrite the Bible / Anthony Swindell -- Eroticism, death, and redemption: the operatic construct of the biblical femme fatale / Peter McGrail -- Re-visioning a biblical story through libretto and music: Debora e Jaele by Ildebrando Pizzetti / Helen Leneman -- Oratorio as exegesis: the use of the book of Isaiah in Handel's Messiah / Andrew Davies -- 'The bosom of Abraham' (Luke 16:22): father Abraham in the visual imagination / Martin O'Kane -- Big sleep: strategic ambiguity in Judges 4-5 and in classic film noir / Eric S. Christianson.

Summary: The eight lively contributions to this volume, appearing concurrently in a special issue of the journal. Biblical Interpretation, illustrate a range of exciting approaches to the newly developing area of the reception history of the Bible in literature, music, art and film.

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The eight lively contributions to this volume, appearing concurrently in a special issue of the journal. Biblical Interpretation, illustrate a range of exciting approaches to the newly developing area of the reception history of the Bible in literature, music, art and film.

English.

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