Reading the Magnificat in Australia

Anne F Elvey

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 75
• Biblical songs have multiple afterlives. In a history of invasion, their reverberations are poignant. What is now called Australia is a continent of m... Lees meer

Incarnate Word, Inscribed Flesh

Ela Nutu

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 6
• The pre-existent, transcendent Logos, the principal character in the prologue of John's Gospel, is a prime example of a unified and centred concept, s... Lees meer

From the Margins 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• Despite half a century of biblical interpretation that has sought to put women back on the agenda of ancient texts (written largely if not wholly by m... Lees meer

When Seeing is Reading

Yaffa Englard

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 81
• How do Christian and Jewish exegeses, opinions and polemics of all ages interact in producing the visual art interpretations in any work, age, place, ... Lees meer

The Performed Bible

Helen Leneman

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 11
• The Bible and Western culture is a burgeoning area of interest in recent scholarship, but comparatively little has been written on the Bible and music... Lees meer

With Eyes of Flesh

Carole R Fontaine

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 10
• Carole Fontaine, well known among biblical scholars for her feminist studies in the biblical wisdom traditions and the ancient Near East, is also a hu... Lees meer

Abject Bodies in the Gospel of Mark

Manuel Villalobos Mendoza

• Paperback | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 45
• Basing himself on Judith Butler's notion of gender, abjectness, vulnerability, and the precariousness of the human body, Manuel Villalobos offers a co... Lees meer

Bodies without Organs in the Gospel of Mark

Manuel Villalobos Mendoza

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 78
• In this stimulating monograph, Villalobos Mendoza leads the diligent reader to a re-appreciation of Mark's Jesus as an enabler of human freedom. The f... Lees meer

The Bible as Visual Culture

John Harvey

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• This is an interdisciplinary study of the Bible and visuality. It is the first to be written by a historian of visual culture (that is, aspects of cul... Lees meer

Religion, Politics, Media in the Broadband Era

Alice Bach

• Paperback | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• Religion has gone public; and the much-discussed political pendulum has been swinging widely in its effort to keep up with the eruptions of faith swel... Lees meer

Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship

Hector Avalos

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• In this immensely wide-ranging and fascinating study, Avalos critiques the common claim that the abolition of slavery was due in large part to the inf... Lees meer

Reforging the Bible

Anthony C Swindell

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• Reforging the Bible continues the programme Anthony Swindell began in his earlier book, Reworking the Bible: The Literary Reception-History of Fourtee... Lees meer

Mark, Women and Empire

Seong Hee Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• As Mark's Gospel moves toward its climax, four stories of women challenge Jesus in his mission to establish the empire of God against the backdrop of ... Lees meer

Between the Text and the Canvas

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 13
• Can a painting or illustration of a biblical scene help readers understand the Bible? Conversely, to what extent can knowledge about a biblical story ... Lees meer

When Psychology Meets the Bible

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 83
• This much-needed biblical studies encounter with the physiological and social sciences demonstrates ways these disciplines relate closely. A group of ... Lees meer

Wrestling with Textual Violence

Mikael Sjberg, Mikael Sj'oberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• A story of a judge who sacrifices his virgin daughter is of course an issue both in ethics and in gender studies. Such is the biblical narrative of Je... Lees meer

Recent Releases

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• The relationship between theology and film has always been a complicated one. When film was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, it quickly ... Lees meer

Scottish Fiction as Gospel Exegesis

Alison M Jack

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• The relationship between the Bible and literature continues to fascinate many scholars working in both fields. In this book, as the Gospels and the wo... Lees meer

With Eyes of Flesh

Carole R Fontaine

• Paperback | Engels | Bible in the Modern World | nr. 10
• Carole Fontaine, well known among biblical scholars for her feminist studies in the biblical wisdom traditions and the ancient Near East, is also a hu... Lees meer

The Way the World Ends? the Apocalypse of John in Culture and Ideology

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• The richly varied collection of 15 essays in this volume showcase the afterlife of the Book of Revelation. It is a biblical book that has left its mar... Lees meer

Painting the Text

Martin O'Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• In this masterly work, Martin O'Kane shows artists at work as readers of the Bible and not simply as illustrators of biblical scenes. The painter's ey... Lees meer

Bible, Art, Gallery

• Hardcover | Engels | Bible in the Modern World
• While Old Masters' paintings of biblical scenes held by major galleries in many countries are visited and seen by thousands, gems of biblical art in s... Lees meer