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Culture, entertainment and the Bible / edited by George Aichele.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 309
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- Bible--Miscellanea.
- Bible.
- Bible--In literature.
- Bible--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This topical volume deals with the adoption of biblical language and narrative and the presentation of 'biblical' images and themes in popular literature, art and mass media. The chapters, all written by experts in cultural studies of the Bible, explore how ideologies are produced, in various ways, when biblical texts are brought into play with each other, with other texts, and with the inevitable and continual demands for cultural and historical ""translation""-or ""recycling""-of the scriptures. The volume contains some theoretical reflections, but focuses on specific examples of cultural tr
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Part I: POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT; Part II: ART LITERATURE, MUSIC; Part III: ON IDEOLOGY; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-223) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611841560
- 9781281841568
- 1281841560
- 9780567228789
- 0567228789
- OCLC:
- 286966605
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