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Retellings : the Bible in literature, music, art and film /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Exum, J. Cheryl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.